Set Bing’s wallpaper of the day as your Windows desktop background

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Updated onDecember 19, 2017

updated onDecember 19, 2017

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BingWallpaperis a free program that runs onMicrosoftWindows devices and it automatically sets Bing’swallpaperof the day as thedesktop background.

On the Bing homepage,Microsoftdisplays a different hi-res photo every single day and the users can download it for free on their devices. You won’t be able to use it as desktopwallpaperthough.

Bing users can also look and download photos that were published on previous days on the Bing homepage. You can download photos in order to manually set them as yourdesktop wallpaper, but you can also choose the automatic solution that will make things much easier.

Bing Wallpaper

BingWallpaperis free and it’s available as a Python script that needs to be run in a Python environment. It can also be run as an executable. You’re going to need to run the executable file every time you want it to download the newest photo fromBingand set it as your Windows desktopwallpaper. You have to add the program as a startup item or you can just as well create a task that runs once a day.

The program is automated and you just have to run it and make sure that you’re connected to the Internet.

BingWallpapersearches Bing n order to discover the latestwallpaperimage and it downloads it to the local system if the query is a successful one and also if that specificwallpaperdoesn’t already exist on the device. The image is going to be set as yourdesktop backgroundautomatically.

Creating a daily task

In order to create a task that runs once a day, you just have to follow these steps:

The task is going to run once every single day and you’ll be able to delete it with aright-clickon the task, and then selecting delete from thecontext menu.

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Bing Wallpaper#

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Set Bing’s wallpaper of the day as your Windows desktop background

Bing Wallpaper

Creating a daily task