A Windows 7 Theme Using Bing Background Images

The daily background image used on the new search engine Bing.com often features beautiful and stunning images of scenes from around the world. Many people have wanted to use these images as their desktop wallpaper, leading some to go so far as to develop utilities that help you capture the images and save them on your PC. Another popular blogger, Long Zheng of I Started Something, even created an online digital archive which hosts the Bing images from all the localized versions of the Bing.com homepage. Soon thereafter, the MakeUseOf blog provided instructions on how to craft a Windows 7 theme using the RSS feeds from the online archive.

But now there comes the easiest way yet to use Bing’s backgrounds as wallpaper: a Windows 7 theme that’s already been created for you. This time, you don’t have to make the file yourself, you just have to click to install it. The Bing theme, discovered on Blogsolute and blogged about on .Net Devhammer is incredibly simple to install. Here’s how:

1. Download the file Bing.theme (Right-click & choose “Save as”)
2. Double-click the downloaded Theme File.
3. Select the Download Attachments option so images are downloaded automatically when Bing RSS updates.

That’s a much easier way than anything else I’ve seen before and I had the theme up-and-running in seconds after install. The only downside is that the images hosted on Bing.com aren’t in the correct size for desktop backgrounds, so the theme centers them instead. However, you can go into the settings and change the background color if desired. You can also set the images to fill the screen, but you’ll lose a little resolution in the process.