{"id":11893,"date":"2010-12-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/12\/28\/windows-7-not-only-can-make-a-wallpaper-slide-show-from-images-on-your-computer-it-can-even-pull-them-from-an-rss-feed\/"},"modified":"2010-12-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T07:00:00","slug":"windows-7-not-only-can-make-a-wallpaper-slide-show-from-images-on-your-computer-it-can-even-pull-them-from-an-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20101228-00\/?p=11893","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 not only can make a wallpaper slide show from images on your computer, it can even pull them from an RSS feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the theme file documentation is <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb773190.aspx#slideshow_settings\"> a section called [Slideshow]<\/a> which lets you control the source for images that are used when you put the desktop wallpaper in slideshow mode. And a bonus feature hidden in the [Slideshow] section is the ability to draw the images from an RSS feed. After creating the .theme file, double-click it and it will be added to the list of available themes.\n One thing about the RSS feed is that when you first set it up, it&#8217;ll probably take a while for the initial images to download. You don&#8217;t get any feedback that the images are still downloading; they just show up once they&#8217;re ready. So don&#8217;t freak out.<\/p>\n<p> Well, okay, if the images have already downloaded and you still don&#8217;t see them, then maybe you can freak out. (Did you remember to select the theme after you added it to the list of available themes?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the theme file documentation is a section called [Slideshow] which lets you control the source for images that are used when you put the desktop wallpaper in slideshow mode. And a bonus feature hidden in the [Slideshow] section is the ability to draw the images from an RSS feed. After creating the .theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-11893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Buried in the theme file documentation is a section called [Slideshow] which lets you control the source for images that are used when you put the desktop wallpaper in slideshow mode. And a bonus feature hidden in the [Slideshow] section is the ability to draw the images from an RSS feed. After creating the .theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}