How to speed up change wallpaper feature?

[Alex1986]

As you see lowest timing is 10 sec how can i lower it to 1 sec?

Basicly i want moving wallpaper i remember dreamscene worked like crap so i quess fev pictures would be better...

Also any alternative is welcome

 

[mickey megabyte]

if you really want your wallpaper to move, several media players allow you to use a movie as a desktop (eg kmp or vlc), and winamp lets you display visualisations, such as the excellent milkdrop, as the desktop.

there are also ways to use screensavers as your desktop, but i don't have any links for you. google is your friend.

 

[Alex1986]

Hm for example VLC so i need to set it as auto start and set it in options right? avi file will do?

It will run by it self after each restart?

 

[mickey megabyte]

i've never played with it myself, alex - i think you may have to play about a bit to get it to autostart fullscreen.

try putting an avi shortcut (or mkv, etc) in your startup folder, making sure that avi's are associated with vlc.

 

[Alex1986]

VLC not working i even enabled wallpaper mode in options...

 

[mickey megabyte]

ok, i did say that i've never tried it myself.

hmm, kmp doesn't want to play in desktop mode either - they aren't ready for windows 7 yet it seems!

just tested winamp, and the milkdrop visualisation works in desktop mode - only trouble is that you have to feed it with sound to get any motion out of it...

i guess you'll have to learn to chill out and settle for 10 second slide-shows...

 

[Alex1986]

i guess you'll have to learn to chill out and settle for 10 second slide-shows...

10 secounds and 5955 jpgs that will take forever

Any alternative?

 

[mickey megabyte]

have you googled for using screensavers as a desktop?

 

[stormy13]

I have a feeling that the 10 sec minimum is hard coded somewhere. I found the regkey responsible for it,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Personalization\Desktop Slideshow\Interval

changed it to 1000 ms, logged off/rebooted and once back on the desktop it was still at 10 sec. There may be another registry entry involved, that or it will take hacking the dll/exe to get it lower.

 

[Mark]

I just modified and tested a sidebar gadget that can change the wallpaper every second, cant go any lower though.

 

[Antman]

Your absolutely the grimmest! Works great. Freakin' annoying, though.

I do have an application for it, however. My baby girl loves watching the changing pix. By going this fast, I can destroy her attention span without ever having to expose her to television.

I was so dreading Barney and 'Tubbies. You have saved the day!

 

[Mark]

Your absolutely the grimmest! Works great. Freakin' annoying, though.

I do have an application for it, however. My baby girl loves watching the changing pix. By going this fast, I can destroy her attention span without ever having to expose her to television.

I was so dreading Barney and 'Tubbies. You have saved the day!

Thanks Ant, it was driving me nuts too, it's a shame there are no transition effects, I think that would make it less annoying, but for OP he would probably prefer it this way as all his images only change by a small amount.

 

[Alex1986]

I just modified and tested a sidebar gadget that can change the wallpaper every second, cant go any lower though.

Thanks i will test when i get some free time

Edit: eats 1-10% cpu...any way i found way to enable dreamscene 1-3% cpu use but thanks any way

 

[cclloyd9785]

how do i get it to fade between them like it normally does?

 

[Zaob]

gadget looks great but is their (and i know its stupid saying it on a windows 7 forum) a way to do this in windows 8

 

[Kirssar]

gadget looks great but is their (and i know its stupid saying it on a windows 7 forum) a way to do this in windows 8

Hey man, just got this thing to work on Windows 10, so maybe I could help you a bit.

Install this: Como habilitar los gadgets de escritorio en Windows 10

It's in Spanish, but you can translate it or something. After you install that thing you should be able to install gadgets on your system. Now that I think of it, maybe it won't work on Windows 8, or maybe you don't even need it, I don't really know. But yeah. After installing it, simply download the gadget provided earlier in the thread, and run it. That should be it.

Cheers, and good luck