FREEWARE GUIDE - Desktop Enhancements

Desktop Enhancements
Wallpaper

Free original wallpapers in 1024 for your desktop.

WinWall

Winwall is a free Win9x/NT/2000/XP utility which is capable of changing your wallpapers at various intervals.

This wallpaper changer will monitor your chosen folder and recognize when new pictures are added or old pictures are removed.

WPChanger	1254 kB	all
WPChanger 1.3.4 (last freeware version) is an easy to use tool to automatically cycle through your collection of desktop wallpapers. Just add the images to be included n the cycle, and it will show them in a list with thumbnail previews. If you prefer not to switch your wallpaper automatically, you can let the program run in the tray, and quickly change wallpapers manually by simply double-clicking on one. Some additional features include conversion to grayscale, image stretching and random cycle, and an option to create a screensaver from the selected images.
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Paper Plus	730 kB	all
Paper Plus is a free desktop wallpaper manager, giving you control over your desktop backgrounds. With built-in support for both Windows Bitmap (BMP) and JPEG images, you can expand the choices available to you for desktop wallpaper. And the easy to use interface makes changing the wallpaper a simple task.

Johns Background Switcher	1.2 MB	98/ME/2000/XP/2003
John's Background Switcher sits in your system tray (down by the clock) and changes your background at the time interval of your choosing. You tell it where to get pictures from and how to show them - maybe you just want to see one photo at a time or maybe you'd like to see a 'Snapshot Scrapbook' of photos thrown across your desktop. It's up to you and you never know what's coming next!

Aligner	391 kB	2000/XP/Vista
Do more than just center or tile your wallpaper on Windows Vista, XP, and 2000. Aligner moves your wallpaper anywhere on the desktop. You even see a preview of what your desktop will look like.

AWC	3047 kB	98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
The AWC is designed to do one thing well: allow you to change your desktop wallpaper on a timed basis. The displayed image can be stretched for best fit to the screen, optionally maintaining its aspect ratio, or displayed at its actual size. When displaying a picture the user can choose to display it in any of the four corners of the screen, centred on one edge or tiled. Images supported: JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TGA and PCX.

Any Wallpaper	347 kB	2000/XP/Vista
Any Wallpaper is a free software utility that helps you to change wallpaper on a regular basis automatically. All you have to do is adding some folders containing wallpaper files, and selecting a few options such as wallpaper change frequency and wallpaper position on the desktop. Completely no fuss or reconfiguration when you have new wallpapers in your folders. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher version required.

The Q++ World Clocks Desktop Wallpaper	3600 kB	all
Displays a discreet yet sophisticated world map showing the local time in a selection of 55, user customizable, cities from a built-in list of over 3500 cities. Automatically calculates summer time changes, and times relative to your current location. Also shows which cities are in in darkness, or daylight or twilight. Automatically adjusts to your screen resolution.

EvJO Wallpaper Changer	1261 kB	98/ME/XP/2000/2003
EvJO Wallpaper Changer is a wallpaper manager that can change your background images at every startup, once a day or at regular time intervals. It features JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP support. This program consists of several options, including an ability to change your images in random order. Just in a few minutes you can master your own desktop wallpaper! Features: - Easy to use interface - Drag & Drop support - Supports many popular graphics formats (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF ,TIF, PCX, TGA) - Changes the wallpapers at Windows startup - Create your favorite wallpaper collections - Hides your desktop icons to see more of your wallpaper - It can be minimized to tray area for easy access - Stores multiple wallpaper's list - Scans directories for wallpaper files - Changes the wallpaper when Windows starts, every x minutes - Changes the wallpaper under the order or randomly.

MuralPix	MB	98/ME/2000/XP
MuralPix Wallpaper Changer is a program which automatically creates Windows wallpapers (background images) from selected JPEG images and changes them in specified period of time. Whether you have a digital camera (and a growing archive of photos on your hard disk) or an archive of images downloaded from internet, MuralPix may be an excellent tool for you to enjoy your photos while you are working and to make the humdrum Windows desktop nice-looking and permanently changing. MuralPix Screen Saver makes a slide show from your images when you do not touch the PC for specified preriod of time. Images are changed with various transition effects. MuralPix can be downloaded in 3 versions, which differ only in number of sample images included, and thus in the size of the package (to download the extended version you should have broadband connection to internet): Minimum version: Contains MuralPix and no sample images (3.0 MB) Basic version: Contains MuralPix and 5 sample images (3.9 MB) Extended version: Contains MuralPix and 50 sample images (10.8 MB)

BioniX Wallpaper	800 kB	95/98/ME/XP/2000
BioniX Wallpaper is a complete and advanced wallpaper changer / manager, that cycles the pictures on your desktop at your choosen time intervals. The greatest thing is that BioniX Wallpaper is FREE. Also, it is small and fast and create dependency.

Desktop Earth	6.2 MB	XP
Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights. Day and night is accurately represented depending on the Sun's overhead position (which depends on both the time of day and the day of the year) and both the snow cover and the foliage changes with the seasons.

Virtual Gallery: Sandra Bullock	4418 kB	95/98/Me/2000/XP
Virtual Gallery - this is 3D gallery, containing about 70 photographies of Sandra Bullock. It produces an impression of the real photogallery, where admirer of the famous actress can walk through a halls and get pleasure. Each, who likes Sandra Bullock will want have this program on the own computer's desktop.

Desktop Enhancements
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