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Theme files allow you to change the look and feel of your Windows Mobile device’s interface.  They are really a great idea, a image and color scheme in one file, but there is one thing Microsoft never thought of, people get sick of looking at the same theme all the time and many people dont have the time to change it when they get sick of looking at the same one.  Luckily there is a program that fixes this problem, ShantzTodayChanger.

ShantzTodayChanger is a free program that will automatically change your background image or even the entire theme.  It also has the ability to do more than just change backgrounds such as running a program every X seconds.

I have been using it for quite some time and I love this application.  I run my phone with about 30 “Windows Mobile Theme” (.tsk) files in my “My Themes” folder and ShantzTodayChanger scrolls through them, switching to a new one every hour.

You may think that this is not a big deal, but this is a very unique program.  One comment on the developer’s blog said, “I searched high and low for software that could do this and found only one or two other inferior versions…This does exactly what I wanted…and it works 100% without fail.”  So why does it work so well?  Rather than running 24/7, this program works by adding itself to Windows’s notification system similar to the way alarm clock programs work.  This saves your device’s resources and while some programs may get closed by Windows Mobile at random, this program only runs for a few seconds at a specified interval.  When the device clock gets to the right time the program launches and changes to the next theme file, then it closes to save your resources.

This program has been around for over a year and still hardly anyone knows about it.  It constantly being improved on and future updates will include true randomization, a registry tracker feature that could do things such as change a weather forecast icon, and several commands that could be used in user-scripts.

Its a free piece of software so so check it out! http://tech.shantanugoel.com/projects/windows-mobile/shantztodaychanger

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