WindowBlinds 6: Changing and Managing Wallpapers
Use WindowBlinds to manage your wallpapers
Monday, June 16, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: OS Customization
You probably know that WindowBlinds is the best way to change the visual style for Windows Vista and XP, but did you also know it can also help you manage your wallpaper collection as well? Yep, WindowBlinds 6 has it's own wallpaper manage built right in. It's had this feature for a while, but with the new UI layout in WindowBlinds 6, things look just a bit different than in previous versions.
Lets take a walk through the wallpaper section in WindowBlinds 6, and let me show you how you can use it to make the process of managing your wallpapers a little easier.
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Wallpaper section |
As seen in the screenshot above, the wallpaper tab in WindowBlinds will present two other tabs. We will start off in the "Change my wallpaper" tab, which should be the default selection. There are two different views for the wallpaper area, one with a preview section and one without. Which you use is a matter of your preference, but you can easily switch between them by clicking the button seen in the screenshot below.
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Wallpaper section with preview |
By default, you should see wallpapers from the Windows directory, WindowBlinds directory, and others in the wallpaper section. Bring up the wallpaper settings window by clicking the tool icon.
This will bring up a dialog where you can add and delete folders which contain images that you would like to use as wallpapers. The drop-down menu is where you can set the images to tile, stretch, center, or use the smart mode.
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Wallpaper settings |
Changing the wallpaper is easy. Once you have selected the image you want, just double-click the image and your wallpaper will change to that image. If you want to mix it up a bit, move over to the "Random wallpaper settings" tab. Here you can set the wallpaper to change at certain times and actions.
- Change the wallpaper every time you logon
- Change the wallpaper on a Monday morning.
- Change the wallpaper every hour
- Change the wallpaper every morning
Just use the drop-down menu to select which setting to use. To select the images to use in the random settings, just double-click the wallpaper image and a check will appear by images that will be used.
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Random wallpaper settings |
Now you see how easy it is to manage and change your wallpapers using WindowBlinds 6. For more information visit the WindowBlinds website at www.windowblinds.net.
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:15 AM
+1
Another nice walk-thru ID
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:41 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 8, 2009 5:25 AM
Nice tutorial. However, I added a folder to my wallpaper file with no problem, but those pictures don't show up when I go to the rotation screen. Suggestions?
Reply #5 Friday, January 8, 2010 12:04 PM
I used wallpaper functionalities of WB6, even though you had to keep the file list under some 400 items to allow the program to read it.
The problem is, after paying a few good dollars to upgrade to WB7, I have been searching the wallpaper change functions in it without success.
Did it quietly disappear, or it's my own fault at not finding it?!?!?!?
Any hints welcome....
Reply #6 Friday, January 8, 2010 12:13 PM
AndreaScagni chances are this reply won't get seen by anyone that could provide an anwer. Start a new thread under the Stardock Support category with this question. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:38 PM
The one thing that keeps me from using WindowBlinds' wallpaper applet is that it cannot read from subfolders -- this should be an update added soon!