Win7 Wallpaper Slide Show and Dropbox

I used to love good desktop wallpaper images. However, for years I avoided using images for backgrounds because no matter how cool the image, I would inevitably get tired of it.

Windows 7 has rekindled my use of images with the built-in Desktop background slide show applet. I love this thing! And once I realized I could point it at my own directories full of images I learned to love it even more.

In fact, I dig it so much I’ve taken it to another level. I now have a “wallpaper” directory under my Dropbox folder. Since all my Win7 PCs are running “wide” monitors I have them all pointed over to this directory for the wallpaper slide shows.

Where do I get the majority of my wallpaper? Interfacelift – I love this site and can easily lose an hour at a time randomly clicking around and grabbing more wallpaper. I try to grab stuff at 1920 x 1200 (my highest resolution) as it seems to scale well on the 1680 x1050 monitors as well.

I’m sure I could be doing the same on my XP machines if anyone wants to suggest a free wallpaper randomizer/rotator I’m all ears. Just so easy to do on Win7 since it is (finally) built-in!

Oh, and I’m also always up for suggestions on good and free wallpaper sites.