Using updated earth image as Windows 7 background

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You like pictures of Earth taken from space? The site die.net offers an image of earth generated in real time. This picture shows the Earth as currently illuminated by the sun. The cloud formations are also present and updated every 3 hours from weather satellites information.

Using the Windows Task Scheduler and a simple script, you can upload regularly updated view of the land and use it in the background of your desktop. The software Wallpaper Free Led allow you to automatically refresh.

You'll have an animated wallpaper of the earth will all hours, for example, changes in sunlight and clouds.

Note that die.net also offers a real-time view of the moon that you can use as wallpaper.

Installing Wget:

GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off.

The wget utility will allow you to download the updated image of the earth on the site die.net from a script that you can plan in the Windows Task Scheduler.

• Click the Download Setup column heading Complete package, EXCEPT sources.
• Save the file to your hard drive.
  
• Once the download is complete, run the file.
  
• Confirm the execution of the file.
  
• The installation wizard opens Wget. Click the Next button.
  
• Select I accept the agreement and click Next five times.
  
• Then click Install.
  
• Alternatively, click the Finish button.

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Creating the download script:

Used wget command line allows you to download a file from the Internet on your computer. Using a script, you can specify the file to download and where to put it on your hard drive. It only remains for you to plan the execution of this script to regularly update your screen.

• Click the Start button and than Computer.
  
• Open the C: \ drive.
  
• Click the New Folder button.
  
• Name the folder earth.
  
• Open Notepad by clicking the Start button, click All Programs, Accessories and then Notepad.
  
• Copy the following code if you use a Windows 32-bit:
  

  C: \ "Program Files" \ GnuWin32 \ bin \ wget.exe-F-N-O c: \ land \ 1600.jpg "http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg"

• Copy 1600.jpg 1600b.jpg

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Schedule to Update the image:

The Windows Task Scheduler allows you to run your script every hour for example to periodically download a new view of the earth. To do so, follow these steps:

• Click the Start button, click All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and then click Task Scheduler.
  
• In the Actions section, click Create a basic task.
  
• Give a name to the task and click Next.
  
• Select Daily and click Next.
  
• Fix the task starts at 00:01 and click on Next.
  
• Select Start a program and click Next.
  
• Click on the Browse button.
  
• Select the file terre.bat file C: \ earth and click Open.
  
• Check the box Open the properties for this task ... and click Finish.
  
• Open the Triggers tab and click Edit.
  
• Check the Repeat Task box all and select one hour for a duration of one day.
  
• Click OK twice and close the scheduler task. The sight of land and will be downloaded every hour.

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Automatically update the wallpaper:

Now that the image is downloaded from the earth every hour, you must adjust your screen accordingly. The easiest way is through the free Led Wallpaper. Here is how you can do the same:

• Download LedWallpaper and Install it on your system.
  
• Launch Wallpaper Led by double clicking on its icon on the desktop.
  
• Select Lists of images.
  
• Click the + button on the Folders / lists.
  
• Give a name to the list, for example Earth and click OK.
  
• Select a folder to save this list in the folder C: \ earth for example. Click Save.
  
• Select the list and click on the Earth + button under Images.
  
• Select 1600.jpg image file C: \ earth and click Open.
  
• Click again on the + button on the heading Images.
  
• Select 1600b.jpg image file C: \ earth and click Open.
  
• Then click the button Frequency.
  
• Check the All box, enter 20 and select Minutes. Click on OK.
  
• Finally close the window Wallpaper Led by clicking the X in the upper right corner of the window.
  
• Now your screen will be updated every 20 minutes with the images of the earth in real time and automatically downloaded to your computer.