BGInfo and Bing Wallpapers daily refresh seem to conflict

Aaron McHale 6 Reputation points
2021-08-05T18:46:05.417+00:00

I enjoy having the Bing Wallpapers app installed, I get a nice new wallpaper every day. I've testing the BGINfo app, however it seems to conflict slightly with Bing Wallpapers.

Because BGInfo create a temporary wallpaper, as soon as that's applied, the Bing Wallpapers app sees that and seems to turn off the daily refresh.

Has anyone found a workaround to this?

Thanks,
-Aaron

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  1. ocl80 1 Reputation point
    2022-11-26T17:21:29.603+00:00

    The workaround I have found and which - tentatively - seems to work OK is to set BGInfo to write its wallpaper image file to the BingWallpaperApp WPImages folder in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\WPImages. You can do this by setting the Location option in BGInfo's Bitmap menu:

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    This seems to be enough to trick the Bing wallpaper updater so that it doesn't clear the Daily Wallpaper Refresh setting.

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