dkopec91

If anyone is interested in a workaround, which I've created in 2017 and have been personally using ever since - you can check out the following post: It won't make animated backgrounds possible, but It works for my use case so hopefully someone else will find it useful

I realize that this is rather an old thread. Nevertheless, I'd like to share a little program that I've made recently, which can help you achieve the described goal. How it works: Simply speaking SymlinkSwapper creates a file (symbolic link/symlink), which you can use as a sensor panel background. Symlink points to one of the files in the directory of your choosing. After user-defined time passes, SymlinkSwapper replaces the file it created with a new symlink, this time pointing to the next file in the source directory. And so on and so forth. A short while after the sensor panel detects that the symlink has changed it reloads the background image. Download + source code: SymlinkSwapper GitHub page Select the "Releases" URL to download the executable file. Demo: https://youtu.be/BuAg57Ey89Q Recorded on Windows 10 Enterprise 21H1 build 19043.1288 Aida64 Engineer 6.50.5800 Disclaimer: Running this software results in a small amount of data being written onto your SSD/HDD. However small it might be, it's happening constantly with the frequency that you choose. In order to avoid any unnecessary I/O operations that might, in the long run, impact the lifespan of your storage device I would suggest using a Ram Disk utility, such as ImDisk, to store those files in the system memory. ImDisk tutorial Please note that in order for the SymlinkSwapper to work, the executing user has to be assigned appropriate privileges. If you don't wish to modify your system settings for the sole purpose of testing this software you should be able to get it going by selecting "Run as administrator" from the context menu.

@tegazinho, it's happening because desktop wallpaper isn't changed by Windows scaling, while Sensor Panel is. First thing that comes to mind is taking this 625x100 piece of wallpaper that SP currently covers, and resizing it to 500x80. Use the scaled down image as a Sensor Panel background, so that when the Windows scaling kicks in, you'll get the right size background. It probably won't look great after 2 time resizing, but if you set the correct opacity it might not be that bad. Let us know how it turned out - if it's acceptable I might add this scaling option to BGSnippet

@Aidaknow, @TungstenMD - I've created a tool (still beta version), that automates workaround mentioned above. It triggers whenever Windows background changes, takes a snippet of current background, and saves it to a file (you'll setup Aida64 to use this file as panel background and It'll automatically reload it's background whenever said file changes). There's a lot to be improved, but it works as-is for me in Windows 8.1 (edit: works with Windows 10 as well) I plan on preparing some more detailed description, and improving this tool, but since it might be hard for me to find some time - I hope this will somewhat solve the problem. Note 1: Your input file will vary (it's most likely C:\Users\ [YOURUSERNAME] \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper). This should be set automatically. Note 2: Right now all wallpapers in slideshow need to be correct size, as no rescaling is implemented. Note 3: If you've got a problem setting it up please let me know. If it works let me know as well SOURCE CODE: https://github.com/dkopec91/BGSnippet DOWNLOAD PAGE: https://bit.ly/BGSnippet SETUP AND DEMO VIDEO ON YOUTUBE