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The other day I received an email from a fellow IT aficionado with the screenshot shown below and a link to a great product that lets you do all kinds of great things with desktop wallpaper in Windows.  The product is called John's Background Switcher.  John's website demonstrates the main feature of this handy little application as being able to periodically change up your wallpaper much like a slideshow.  You can specify individual files on your computer, complete folders, Flickr photo sharing, Phanfare web albums, smugmug photo galleries, Picasa Web Albums, or Yahoo! image search.  I'm not sure which operating systems support this tool, but Vista Ultimate (SP1) certainly does!

This handy little tool sits in your system tray and changes your background based on the timed interval that you set.  It also offers something called a Snapshot Scrapbook of photos thrown across your desktop.  The settings dialog is very straight forward and simple to use.  What was really nice for me though, is that this application lets me run a different wallpaper on each of my monitors in my dual display configuration.  Well, not just that.  I can also use one picture that spans across both monitors.  It is truly incredible.  All I had to do was add two pictures to list and select "show different images on each monitor" from the drop down list.  It couldn't be any more simple than that.

My favorite part of this app is that it's free!  You can download the latest version (Version 3.3 at press time) by visiting John's download site.  If you run into any trouble, simply head on over to John's Support Forum for some assistance.  If you are picture happy, or just a geek, I strongly recommend that you download this very sweet tool as soon as possible.