XP wallpaper Automatic Switch

XP, which is popular on the market, often comes with Microsoft's "automatic wallpaper replacement". The specific usage is as follows:

(1) Automatic wallpaper change for software installation (slide showings is a free desktop Enhancement Tool for Microsoft. After extracting the downloaded files, run the program file topshow.exe and select "Install" to integrate them into "Display Properties. Download: http://www.onlinedown.net/soft/2717.htm

(2) After the wallpaper is installed every day, right-click the blank area on the desktop, and then click "properties" in the shortcut menu to open the "show properties" dialog box, you must find that there is an extra "automatic wallpaper replacement" option card! Switch to this tab, select the "enable auto-change desktop Wallpaper" check box, and then specify the folder for storing beautiful photos under "image" as the image directory for automatic wallpaper replacement, at the same time, set "interval for changing a new image" to one day under "Frequency" and click "OK. So far, everything is OK. You will enjoy the different pictures of yesterday when you start the system every day. Good mood! What are you waiting? Tell everyone how to uninstall it:

(3) After software uninstallation, you may feel that you no longer need the desktop wallpaper to be automatically changed. Use the following methods to uninstall the software:

1. log out of the component "logs/u x: \ windows \ system32 \ bgswitch. dll" (X is the system drive letter of the Windows system, the same below), and click "OK.

2. Delete Files: the two files automatically used by the wallpaper are bgswitch.exe and bgswitch. dll, which are located in the X: \ windows \ system32 \ folder.

3. Clear the Registry: click the "run" command in the "Start" menu, type "Regedit" in the "open" box, and click "OK" to open the "Registry Editor" window, find and delete the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ shared tools \ msconfig \ startupreg \ bgswitch. After windows is restarted, open the "Display Properties" dialog box again, and you will find that the "Automatic wallpaper replacement" tab is gone.

The above is the content of the online tutorial. The third step is to clear the registry and there is a problem on XP. The originally labeled registry options cannot be found. After searching, the Registry content is found as follows:

1. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[Hkey_classes_root \ CLSID \ {ACD361C7-AEC5-4a31-9478-A447402B6B62}]

@ = "Automatic background switcher"

[Hkey_classes_root \ CLSID \ {ACD361C7-AEC5-4a31-9478-A447402B6B62} \ inprocserver32]

@ = Hex (2): 25, 00, 53,00, 79,00, 00, 6d, 00, 6f, 00, 6f, 25 ,\

00, 5C, 00, 00, 00, 5C, 00 ,\

, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00

"Threadingmodel" = "apartment"

2. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ controls Folder \ desk \ shellex \ propertysheethandlers \ bgswitch]

@ = "{ACD361C7-AEC5-4a31-9478-A447402B6B62 }"

3. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS \ S-1-5-19 \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run]

"Bgswitch" = "C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ bgswitch.exe"

Delete the process, and you will not be able to see the bgswitch process in the system Process Manager after the restart. There are many online tutorials, but they are not necessarily useful. This article mainly records your actual experience in use.

Operating System: XP SP2