Vista background switching app?

I know Windows 7 has native support for dynamic background switching, and I was wondering if there are any decent free programs that'll do essentially the same thing in Vista. I'd like to be able to create a folder of, say, 20 photos and have a program rotate through those as my background every 10 minutes or so without causing any system hiccups or performance drops, hopefully that's not asking for too much... Any suggestions?

 

Here.

I'm just kidding. Whenever I see that, I always feel bad for the person on the receiving end, lol.

This is the first link if you clicked the one above.

Hope that helped.

 

Phew... try searching the forum... I did ask that a while back too... tried one or two programmes... didn't like it and manually switch them (why not show off your own photographs )

Good luck in finding the old threads!

 

Here's one, John's Background Switcher. If you're savy enough it won't use any resources really (set it up as a task to run every 10 minutes or so). I used to use this on Vista, and it worked well. The fading background didn't work on me on 64-bit though. If you let it run (not setting it up as a task in Task Scheduler) I believe it uses like 7MB of ram after a few hours of it running.

 

Yes that's what I always used. I was using it on W7 too for awhile until someone mentioned the inbuilt one. But I think I might go back to using John's because I did like the fade feature.

 

Cool, I'm trying out the one linked in the first reply and it does what I want it to do, but I can't seem to get it to scale the photos to fit the whole screen, they're just centered so that the edges are black. I'd rather it crop off some from the top and bottom of the photos so that it fits the whole monitor rather than preserving the aspect ratio of the original photo, can that John's switcher program do that?

 

Yes, it can. Just go into the options and set it to do that.