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How to change the desktop wallpaper from powershell.
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| set-itemproperty -path "HKCU:Control Panel\Desktop" -name WallPaper -value accipiter.png |
$setwallpapersrc = @"
...
Thank you very much, perfectly working with powershell, amazing :o
It doesn’t seem that this works, just tested on windows 10 (server?) in an azure lab VM I had lying around. Is this broken in newer windows versions or am I doing this wrong? I copy-pasted the command and used a random JPG I found on the internet as the test background. I received no errors when I run it, but it didn’t change anything. If I use get-itemproperty I can see WallPaper is set to fish.jpg but the desktop background isn’t changing…
Oh never mind you just have to restart the system. Is there any way to force the wallpaper/desktop update?
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Is there a way to get these awesome scripts to work for an entire DIR, instead of single file?
Cheers