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

Download:

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Add shortcuts on your desktop automatically when inserting drives or media with Desk Drive

Overview:

Desk Drive™ solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window’s Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective.

Desk Drive sits quietly in the system tray. Configuration image at right is just a click away and allows you to specify which types of media to monitor. So simple, it just works. Download it today!

System Requirements:

Windows XP/Vista

.Net Framework 2.0

Review:

So one of the cool things that ubuntu had over windows when i tried it was something so simple like adding a shortcut to a recently inserted media like a CDROM or pendrive, it made knowing what stuff you had inserted in your PC very easy and in addition you could access your stuff without opening the ubuntu explorer. Anyway this functionality can be replicated in windows by using desk drive, it will sit on the system tray and will add a shortcut to whatever stuff you insert in your PC , these shortcuts will disappear once you remove whatever you have put in, you can choose with drives will be monitored and btw i suggest you remove your floppy drive otherwise desk drive will search for inserted floppies constantly which will cause a constant and annoying sound, at least that is what happened to me. In my system desk drive used between 10MB to 20MB which is ok i guess for those rich people that have like a gig of ram and more (yes i am bitter because i only 256MB, oh wait i mean 224MB after you subtract the shared memory that the integrated video uses….i hate my PC).
So in conclusion use desk drive if you feel interested in having a shortcut for every media that you inserted. Available for Windows XP/Vista.

Get at it http://blueonionsoftware.com/DeskDrive.aspx