JL Wallpaper Changer

If your desktop is pretty tidy, you might at least place a cool wallpaper you can enjoy every time you reach the desktop. Sure enough modern Windows iterations allow you to use rotating collections of pictures, but there are also third-party alternatives like JL Wallpaper Changer which aim to make the process a little easier.

There’s one thing you need to check before you can actually enjoy what the application has to offer, and that’s if Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package is on your computer, because you need to go and grab it otherwise.

The application automatically minimizes to the tray area on launch. Interacting with the icon brings up the configuration panel to set up general behavior preferences. It’s also the place where you specify the collection of pictures, which can be composed of multiple folders. Although dropping them over the window has no effect, using the browse dialog is not that difficult.

Wallpapers start to change as soon as you’re done adding a source locations for files. However, you might want to go ahead to the second tab to set up timing options. Here you can choose whether a random picture to be selected every time and at random intervals, or have them loaded in order, but at a specific interval which is specified in hours, minutes, and seconds.

Unfortunately, there are no alignment options for pictures, so it’s best to use only pictures you’re sure to fit on the screen. What’s more, making the app run on startup needs to be manually done, because there’s no built-in option to enable this.

All things considered, we can safely state that JL Wallpaper Changer only has one advantage over the default Windows personalize tool, and that’s the option to set interval lower than a minute. Sadly, stability issues might make it crash from time to time, and with no alignment options you might be tempted to look for alternatives.