Juggler : Automatic Wallpaper Changer for Vista

By now you should already have a huge collection of wallpapers. If you don’t, go to previous posts to get direct downloads and a tool to download high quality wallpapers.

Vladstudio Wallpaper Collection

Spectacular Wallpapers from InterfaceLIFT; Tool to download them all;

Now the next thing is to use these wallpapers. Going back to “Personalization” settings every time is really not something I’d prefer. So I, again, coded up a small and handy app which can do this for us.

• It runs in background and can be controlled from System Tray.
• It can be configured to
  • start with Windows.
  • look for wallpapers in a specific directory. Best way to use this is to dump all wallpapers matching your resolution in one folder and configure to use that folder.
  • change wallpaper once in half, one or two hrs.
• You can also manually change wallpaper by using Juggle menu or double clicking the icon.
• You’ve got the source. So, change it if you want more features.

And that’s pretty much it. I’m using it on Vista (1920×1200). It will NOT work on XP (or anything other than Vista for that matter) as XP doesn’t support JPEG images as wallpapers and that’s what I am using. I may update it later if I could spare some time. You can get a tool which may work with XP at Coding4Fun. And if you want you can always change the code [link below]. Updated to work with Vista and XP.

Remember, its not fully tested or final app. I just coded and left it when it started doing I wanted. So, no negative testing.

Juggler.exe.zip [Independent Executable]

Juggler.source.zip [Source Code, VS 2005]

Links disabled for outdated app. Follow the link below for updated links.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: I’ve updated this app with fixes and more features. Please navigate to the detailed post for description and download.