A great utility for displaying your favorite photos as your desktop wallpaper.
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Wallpaper SlideShow LT 1.4.3 is a program that will display your images as wallpapers. You can select a list of images that the program will display on your desktop.
You can add or remove files or entire folders from the list. You can configure the program to select the image to be used as wallpaper randomly, how much time will it remain unchanged and if you want the program to change it at every startup. You can also tell the program how to display the images (tiled, centered or fitted to the screen). You can preview the images included in the list. You will also see the specifications for each image, which format can be JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFFor BMP. Wallpaper Slideshow LT can be set to run at the system startup, exit after changing the wallpaper, suspend itself when the screensaver is running and save the list of displayed images so they won't be repeated until every other image has been displayed. You can set the default background color and default wallpaper position and scan for more images automatically.
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This update does not exist for the free edition branded by HP on HP computers. There is an update for the free edition on the support page for cyberlink, but the version is different.
First of all, the concept behind this program, is great: free software that allows the user with muliple monitors to specify a different desktop "wallpaper" image for each display.I encountered two problems, however.First of all, Gianpaolo Bottin, the developer, states that the program is compatible with Vista. Unfortunately, a program with an option to load and/or run automatically at system startup, but is blocked by Vista (because it is not compatible with Vista's UAC), forcing the user to right-click on the blocked applications icon in the notification area of the taskbar and to select each blocked program, manually allow it to run, and then confirm this decision when the UAC prompt/dialog appears on the screen.I have encountered too many freeware and shareware programs that the developers (which, in many cases, are substantial, commercial teams -- and not simply an individual who develops software) describe as being compatible with Vista, apparently because the software runs under Vista and does not crash. If the software is not compatible with all of the basic features of Vista -- and UAC is a critical, albeit annoying, component of Vista (but Microsoft has "trashed" the 'su'/'sudo' security models that work successfully with Mac OS X -- which is a much more user-friendly and intuitive OS than Windows, and has used 'su' successfully and without inconveniencing users for over nine years -- Linux, the BSD UNIX server and desktop distributions, Solaris (and, now, OpenSolaris) and the few proprietary UNIX distributions that are still around) because UAC is a key security component.Obviously, one wants to minimize the number of programs and services that are running in the background -- and only programs that are necessary, such as security software and networking, should load at system startup, but boot times quickly become intolerable if users have too many loading at startup.I have deleted several freeware and evaluation versions of shareware and commercial software that need to load at system startup, but end up "backlogged" in the notification area, waiting for me to launch them manually. If a program is supposedly compatible with Vista, then it does not suffer from this problem (and I often find these same programs generate the "no longer responding error" because they have other compatibility issues with Vista.I'm sorry, but I do not have time to be a beta-tester, especially for a program that is an evaluation version for which I am being asked to pay a license fee after the trial period.Second of all, Wallpaper SlideShow LT (and its shareware counterpart that will randomly change the wallpaper on each display, based upon the user's preferences), suffers from the same problem as almost ever similar program that I have tried, or the problem is a limitation of Windows: Getting Wallpaper Slideshow to work if each display does not have the exact same resolution is not possible -- or, if you get it to work, your setup fails the next time you reboot, and you end up wasting your time on what is probably a futile task, unless you have no actual work to do on the computer.I need to contact Gianpaolo Bottin, but he is on a list of about 15 developers who have similar issues with Vista.Finally, Wallpaper SlideShow ST (the dynamic, shareware version that I tried) puts white text across each display advertising itself and is perhaps the most obnoxious form of "nagging" that I have encountered, because users who are so aesthecially inclined that they are particular enough to want to use a product such as Wallpaper Slide Show (although I personally believe that there are better uses of RAM and CPU cycles than having one's desktop wallpaper change dynamically, especially at absurd intervals such as once per hour) certainly will find constant "nag-papers" ("nag-tops"?) to be especially irritating.