WindowBlinds: Manage Your Desktop Wallpaper

I recently wrote about the ability of WindowBlinds to change the color of your visual styles, so this week I wanted to touch on another cool feature of WindowBlinds which is the built-in wallpaper changer.  If you are like me, then you probably have a large gallery of wallpapers on your hard drive.  Organizing them isn't always easy, and finding them and adding them to your desktop can be just as tedious. 

Fortunately, WindowBlinds has some features that can help you with managing your wallpaper collection.  In this article I am using WindowBlinds 5.5 to demonstrate these features.  In your WindowBlinds configuration window select "Change my wallpaper" from the menu on the left side. 

You can simply browse through the thumbnails, and when you want to apply a wallpaper, just double-click the preview and your wallpaper will be applied to the desktop. 

There are two options near the bottom right on the configuration window just above the thumbnail previews.  The first one will change the wallpaper between the larger preview and a gallery view.  The second image (tools icon) is the wallpaper settings option.  From that screen you can add/remove folders that include wallpapers, and select/deselect those folders from viewing as well.  Simply click "add folder" and browse to the folder that contains your wallpaper collections and they will be added for viewing in WindowBlinds. You can also set the wallpaper options such as tiled, centered, stretch, or smart mode from there.

Now that your wallpaper collections are set up, click "Changer" to configure your wallpapers to change based on certain settings.  You can set WindowBlinds to change your wallpaper on Monday mornings, every morning, at every logon, or every hour.  These are optional settings and you can set it to never change your wallpaper with those settings.  You can also set these to only use the wallpapers of your choice, or apply it to them all if you like.

Now a quick note for people who don't want WindowBlinds to apply wallpaper that is included with a theme they are using.  In the WindowBlinds configuration select "Override default settings", and make sure the setting "Apply the wallpaper included with a skin" is unchecked.

I made a short video to go along with this tutorial.  It shows how easy it is to manage your desktop wallpapers and goes through the features described in this guide.