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Hello,

I'm happy to provide the (rather messy) source code to this handy little program for changing the windows desktop background to a .jpg link. It has served me well for 8 years now and I hope it provides some enjoyment. There may be some win32 C++ code that could be handy to grab and use in another custom program. It would be nice to see some new functionality added such as custom webcam links etc and some error checking. Make sure there are no spaces in the folder locations that the strings point to otherwise the images wont be set as background and there is currently no error return info to tell you whats going on. You will probably want to add a settings dialog to change the base folder where the images are downloaded to and retrieved from when the program sets the background. ... read more