Cool changing wallpaper from Bing.com

August 8th, 2009 by Simon Leave a reply »

bingLogo_lg Another fantastic way to personalize your Windows 7 desktop is to use the wallpapers from Bing, Microsoft’s search engine that’s gaining market share from Google.  Every day the image at Bing changes and frankly they’re stunning.

So what do you need to do to have your desktop update itself every day.  It’s quite simple.

  1. Start notepad, to do that click the Start button and type notepad  
  2. Copy the following text after these instructions into the window and click File > Save As.. and call the file bing.theme , save it to your Documents library.
  3. Open your Documents library and double click bing.theme then from the popup select Download attachments.  Now every day your theme will change.

This tip has been everywhere, but it originally came from Long Zheng from www.istartedsomething.com & makeuseof.com .

[Theme]
DisplayName=Bing
[Slideshow]
Interval=1800000
Shuffle=1
RssFeed=http://feeds.feedburner.com/bingimages
[Control Panel\Desktop]
TileWallpaper=0
WallpaperStyle=0
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


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  • Simon
    Yes, remains to be seen how they integrate the search technologies but Bing is gaining massive market share and that only means more investment...there's an improvement coming to indexing very soon...
  • my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
  • i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
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