Download Windows 7 Themes with RSS Feed Based Desktop Slideshow

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We already know about Normal Functionality of Desktop Slideshow, Windows 7 Themes, and Libraries etc. Well in simple terms a desktop slideshow allows us to create slideshow of wallpapers but we many not know that windows 7 desktop Slideshow also has power to play slideshow from RSS feeds.

Yes its true, Long Zheng from istartedsomething has discovered from msdn documentation related to themes that new Windows 7 Theme file format has support for RSS feed as source URL for slideshow images. Long Zheng has created three windows 7 themes using RSS Feed as source to create slideshow of Flickr User’s profile which provides original high-resolution photos to the public.

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Following Code of Theme file is responsible to pull images from RSS Feed Source.

[Slideshow]
Interval=1800000
Shuffle=1
RssFeed=http://www.fabrikam.com/Feed

Long Zheng pointed out that windows 7 does not automatically refresh to queue the new photos in the slideshow you need to login/logout or toggle between two themes to force a manual refresh.