Wallpaper Slideshow LT : Automatically change your desktop wallpaper

Wallpaper Slideshow is a great utility for displaying your favorite photos as your desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow offers you complete control on your wallpapers collection and allows you to easily set your favorite images (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP) as desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow is simple to use, intuitive and complete with full context-sensitive help.

Features:

• User friendly interface with full context-sensitive help
• Displays an unlimited amount of images
• Displays images randomly or sequentially
• Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, BMP file formats.
• Can change wallpaper automatically after a specified time period (e.g. every 60 minutes)
• Can change wallpaper on every Windows startup
• Automatically resizes images to fit your screen size
• High quality image resize (bicubic with prefilter)
• Can use a different background color for each wallpaper
• Use a system tray icon for an easy control of the software
• Ability to hide your Windows desktop icons
• Display a preview of selected wallpapers
• Multi monitor support. Each monitor can have a different wallpaper.
• Easy install/uninstall

Wallpaper Slideshow LT can be used free of charge

Requirements:

Wallpaper Slideshow LT runs under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista

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Automatically change your wallpaper with WallPaper Master

Overview:

Wallpaper Master is a powerful and highly customizable desktop wallpaper manager and cycler.

It will automatically change your background wallpaper with a huge range of options, and is great for indexing large collections of personal photos or any kind of image.

You can create your own categories using images on your computer, and it will cycle through your images automatically in whatever order you specify: in a shuffle mode, listed order, or based on your personal ratings. The program also has auto-size options to make sure your images are displayed with optimal size.

Features:

• Store multiple wallpaper lists as different categories/libraries – up to 5000 images per category!
• The ability to rate wallpaper, so better wallpapers are chosen more often.
• Customizable Global Hotkeys – Quickly change/clear the wallpaper with any key combo.
• Very high quality resizing of images to fit the screen optimally and keep their aspect ratio.
• Auto change the wallpaper when windows starts, every x minutes, or use the ratings to choose an interval.
• Change wallpaper in order, in shuffle mode, or randomly according to rating.
• Analyse the wallpaper and automatically choose between Resize, Tile, Center or Stretch.
• Uses very little resources.
• Minimises to tray area for easy access.
• Easy to use but powerful interface.
• Desktop Wallpaper Master is a free download (freeware)!
• And more!

Review:

Looking always at the same old desktop wallpaper can get boring very fast. WallPaper master fixes this problem with lots of options. with this program you can select up to 5000 pictures per category and automatically choose one of them as your wallpaper,you can do this by random order or by ratings which is handy in making your favorite wallpapers show up more frequently.
WallPaper Master has a lot of features but the most useful is the “auto resize wallpaper” that will shrink a picture to make it fit into the screen if its too big or tile it if it is too small. This program uses between 10 to 11MB of RAM in my system which is a little high for my taste.Unfortunately WallPaper Master only supports JPG and GIF files which is a pretty small selection. also it doesn’t support vista which is a shame for some of you and the development has stopped in favor of the Pro version. still this is a good wallpaper changer with some neat features. Available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

Get it at http://jamesgart.com/wallpaperchanger/