DeleteWallpaper

Allows you to easily delete/trash/move your current wallpaper image

Features

Hackable: Easy to customize
Light: Occupies just a few KB
Easy to use: Both install and use are easy

Install

You can get the latest binary from Releases

If you're running Windows 7, you might also need the .NET Framework 4.5

In Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 it should be preinstalled

Use

To delete your current wallpaper, right-click your desktop and click Delete current desktop wallpaper

By default, it will move the file to the Recycle Bin. See below how to change the program's behaviour.

Uninstall

You can uninstall it from Control Panel -> Uninstall a program -> DeleteWallpaper -> Click Uninstall

Customize

The program folder

The program is located in %appdata%\DeleteWallpaper

To access it, just open an Explorer window and type in the path: %appdata%\DeleteWallpaper

delwp.vbs

This will just launch win7.vbs if OS is Windows 7 or win8.vbs if OS is Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10

You shouldn't need to edit this

win7.vbs

This will get the current wallpaper path on Windows 7 and call hackme.vbs with the wallpaper path

You shouldn't need to edit this

win8.vbs

This will get the current wallpaper path on Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 and call hackme.vbs with the wallpaper path

You shouldn't need to edit this

hackme.vbs

This file basically calls TrashFile.exe (who performs delete/trash/move) with the needed arguments

Things you might need to edit:

Const action = 1

Specify the action to perform on file. Valid options are:

0 = DeleteShell [EXPERIMENTAL/NOT RECOMMENDED]: Delete file using Win32 shell. Will trash or remove depending on your Windows settings (right click Recycle Bin, properties to find out)
1 = Trash: Will send file to Recycle bin using VB/.NET's FileSystem.DeleteFile()
2 = DeleteIO: Will PERMANENTLY erase file using C#/.NET's File.Delete()
3 = Move: Will move file to the path specified by whereToMove. Path must exist.

whereToMove = "C:\Users\yourusername\Desktop\deletedwallpapers"

If you used action = 3, specify here the folder where to move.

IMPORTANT: Folder must exist

Const tryNextWallpaper = True

Valid options: True/False

Specify if you want to skip to next wallpaper (calls nextwp.vbs)

If you're using a non-English system, you'll have to edit nextwp.vbs (see below)

nextwp.vbs

Uses SendKeys to simulate user action (Next desktop background)

You might want to edit it on non-English Windows systems

To find out what key you need to use for your Windows Language:

On your desktop, do Shift + F10

The letter you need to put will be underlined on the line which says "Next desktop background" (in your language)

About the VS projects

All the VS projects are written in C# and target .NET Framework 4.5