Persistently change Windows desktop wallpaper using python

Question

I use the solution provided in this post to change the Windows desktop wallpaper from Python

In particular here is the code sample

import ctypes
import os
image_file = "myimage.jpg"
print("Setting the wallpaper")
SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20 
ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0,  os.path.abspath(image_file) , 0)

The problem is that the change is non persistent, in the sense that the desktop wallpaper gets reset whenever I restart my PC. How can I persistently change the Windows desktop wallpaper from Python?

I use python 3.5

Answer 1

You need to call it like this

print("Setting the wallpaper")
SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20 
SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = 1
ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, os.path.abspath(image_file) , SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE)

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