Does anyone know of a good program out there that ramdomly selects a picture from a group of pictures and sets it as your desktop wallpaper? Ideally I'd like to be able to have all my favorite desktop pics somewhere and on startup the program would randomly select one and put it up.

Thanks,
oliveim

I have found a very nice program for you.its called 'pictureshare.net'... here's what it s got...well designed user interface, custom time switching, image ranking so you see your favorite images more often, adding single files or complete folders, scaled bitmaps so you always see the full image and reduce only that doesn't distort or pixelate small images and a load at startup feature making it hassle-free. Fully customizable the software it does exactly what you want and more... i've got mine set to change wallpaper at startup and every hour after :D...its free to download and there's no time limit as far as i can find... it also come with the option to share you images with others.. but that option requires registering but luckily they decided to include the option of canceling the registartion and just using the wallpaper changer with out having to make any online accont or anything.. it looks like it runs with or via msn if you do opt for that feature.. enought waffle heres a link to the download area on www.pcworlddownload.com.......HERE

sweet. thanks a lot grimbug sounds like just what i was looking for. ill definately check it out!

i was always wanting one but never got round to egtting hold of one.. so thank you for posting your request as it spurred me into action :D and now i can cycle my wallpapers to my hearts desire.. all i have to do is download them off caedes into my wallpaper folder.. and it does the rest.. on the hour is also good as you might be able to keep track of time... like when i've spent hours on caedes and PS and my eyes are bleedig and i can't read the time on my task bar.. lol... well.. i know its changed image 268 times... so i must have been sat infront of the computer for a week now.. lol :D

That is one thing I like about OS X, it has a desktop image changer built-in, I can have my images change at whatever time increment I choose or everytime I log on or when I boot-up. I have mine set for every 15 minutes. I have even had an extra monitor hooked-up and it would change and display different images on each monitor independently!

ahh OS X that'll be mac?? well no such great wallpaper managers come with winXP.. but this free one is really great.. i dont know if it can do dual monitors but it is certainly just as customisable as you rinbuilt one in the other regards :D

This is the one I currently use on XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/experiences/downloads/create_powertoy.asp
Free wallpaper changer from microsoft.

i've got webshots from webshots.com.
it lets you input your own photos and you can download some content from their site for free (5 photos a day of your choice). it's all free unless you want to upgrade, but there's no annoying things wanting you to buy. just give them a fake email and you're set.
if you want you can even upload your photos on their site and order mugs and mouse-pads and t-shirts and posters and stuff with your photo on it.
ok bye.
-jim

yeah I've used webshots b4 & its cool, u can have different catagories within it as well that u can select or not. & i 'm not too sure baout it but stylexp seems to have something like that attached to it now but its not as good as webshots, i dont think. : )