BGInfo and Bing Wallpapers daily refresh seem to conflict

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BGInfo and Bing Wallpapers daily refresh seem to conflict

Aaron McHale 6

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

megafix 1 Reputation point

2021-11-13T10:50:48.99+00:00

I don't have a solution but face the same workflow which seems to be working as designed.
Take a look at the registry settings at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp.
The "Enable daily refresh" switch seems to be reflected by the key "OverrideWallpaper" which holds a string "0" or "1" to disable or enable the refresh.
The wallpaper app recognizes when BGInfo replaces the background image and turns off daily refresh automatically.
One solutuion might be to make BingWallpaperApp think that the replaced image is the image of the day. There are several timestamps at the mentioned registry path.
The logfile at \Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\Log\ will give you more hints.
Happy research :-)

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megafix 1 Reputation point

2021-11-13T10:50:48.99+00:00

I don't have a solution but face the same workflow which seems to be working as designed.
Take a look at the registry settings at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp.
The "Enable daily refresh" switch seems to be reflected by the key "OverrideWallpaper" which holds a string "0" or "1" to disable or enable the refresh.
The wallpaper app recognizes when BGInfo replaces the background image and turns off daily refresh automatically.
One solutuion might be to make BingWallpaperApp think that the replaced image is the image of the day. There are several timestamps at the mentioned registry path.
The logfile at \Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\BingWallpaperApp\Log\ will give you more hints.
Happy research :-)

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ocl80 1

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:

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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