Use Bing wallpaper slideshow in Windows 7

This page was last updated on April 19, 2010

Windows 7 allows you to use a set of wallpapers (called Desktop Slideshow) which can change after a specified time interval. You can use this feature to get Bing wallpapers in desktop slideshow using their RSS feed. This way you get new wallpapers right from the Bing RSS feed. Here is how you can do this :

  1. Create a file named bing.theme with the following contents :
    [[Theme]
    DisplayName=Bing
    
    [Slideshow]
    Interval=1800000
    Shuffle=1
    RssFeed=http://feeds.feedburner.com/bingimages
    
    [Control Panel\Desktop]
    TileWallpaper=0
    WallpaperStyle=2
    Pattern=
    
    [Control Panel\Cursors]
    AppStarting=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_working.ani
    Arrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_arrow.cur
    Crosshair=
    Hand=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_link.cur
    Help=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_helpsel.cur
    IBeam=
    No=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_unavail.cur
    NWPen=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_pen.cur
    SizeAll=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_move.cur
    SizeNESW=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nesw.cur
    SizeNS=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ns.cur
    SizeNWSE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nwse.cur
    SizeWE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ew.cur
    UpArrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_up.cur
    Wait=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_busy.ani
    DefaultValue=Windows Aero
    Link=
    
    [VisualStyles]
    Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles
    ColorStyle=NormalColor
    Size=NormalSize
    ColorizationColor=0X6B74B8FC
    Transparency=1
    
    [MasterThemeSelector]
    MTSM=DABJDKT
  2. Double-click on this file bing.theme to set it as your theme.
  3. You would see a prompt to subscribe to the RSS feed. Choose Download Attachments.
  4. You would see that wallpapers are being downloaded from Bing and displayed on your Windows desktop.

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