Desktop Architect

Desktop Architect is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you personalize your desktop appearance by creating themes with customized wallpapers, screen savers, icons, cursors, sound events, and others.

It sports a straightforward layout that allows you to preview the changes applied to your desktop.

Desktop Architect gives you the possibility to change the icons for different utilities by selecting from preset ones or upload a file from the computer, and choose between various cursors or add an animated or static one.

What’s more, you are allowed to customize the logo image for the startup and shutdown sessions, set an image as your wallpaper, and pick the screen saver and configure its settings.

Other notable characteristics worth mentioning are represented by the possibility to select the color scheme, personalize several windows in terms of size, color, and font style, invert 3D objects, as well as tweak sound events by adding WAV files from your PC.

Desktop Architect lets you save the project to a file, install or uninstall a theme, and schedule a theme at a user-defined time. Last but not last, you can make the desktop icons transparent, show or hide the wallpaper, icons, and windows, and display an empty or full Recycle Bin.

During our testing we have noticed that the tool carries out a task quickly, and no errors showed up throughout the entire process. It is quite friendly with system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

As a conclusion, Desktop Architect offers a handy set of parameters and a straightforward approach for helping you design desktop themes which can be applied automatically.