Wallpaper Cycler is an easy to use program to get rid of that boring static wallpaper on your Windows desktop.

You can easily select several images and they will be displayed one after the other with a specified delay.

You can also shuffle the images. You can let it startup at Windows logon. It can also be configured so it changes the wallpaper once at Windows logon.

Wallpapers are easily managed in multi-level categories which can have time constraints to give your desktop a time or season dependent look.

Here are some key features of "Wallpaper Cycler":

· Supports jpg, jpeg, jpe, bmp, dib, rle, tiff, png, tga, icb, vda, vst, jp2, jpc, pcx, dcx, pnm, pgm, pbm, ppm, ras, ico, cur, ani, emf, wmf.
· Several 'Tiling Settings' which can be set for each wallpaper individually: center, stretch, stretch (no aspect), stretch to height, stretch to width, stretch when too big, tile.
· Add multi-level categories to organize all your wallpapers and even link them to the folders on your harddisk.
· Synchronize your categories to the contents on your harddisk.
· Categories can have time constraints of use. So a certain category can be set up to be used only during winter, or in the morning,...
· When importing images recursively: mirror the folder structure of your harddisk.
· Attach a shortcut to a category.
· Several types of wallpapers: image, gradient, URL.
· Create unique layouts for your wallpapers.
· Add a customizable calendar object to your desktop.
· Add a quote object to your desktop.
· Add notes to your desktop.
· Add a webcam to your desktop.
· Add a logo to your desktop ontop of your wallpaper.
· Blend multiple wallpapers together on your desktop.
· Apply effects to specific layout objects or to specific wallpapers. Effects include: bevel, blur, brightness, contrast, color keying, equalize histogram, gamme correction, grayscale, interlace, invert, mask, mirror, tint, transparency, ... There is also an SDK available to create your own effect DLLs.
· Cycling can happen with a specified delay (up to 59 years) or at specific times or both.
· Rerender the desktop with a specific interval, usefull to refresh a webcam object.
· Adjust the color of the background for each wallpaper separately. You can also pick a color on a wallpaper and use that as background color for that wallpaper or let Wallpaper Cycler automatically calculate the background color based on the wallpaper.
· View thumbnails of your wallpapers.
· CPU Monitoring will prevent Wallpaper Cycler from cycling when the CPU is too busy.
· Drag & Drop support: You can use drag & drop to add images to imagelist or to open a previously saved imagelist.
· Online HTML Help.
· Automagically launch Wallpaper Cycler during Windows-startup.
· Automagically start cycling when Wallpaper Cycler is booted.
· Displays Wallpaper Cycler in the system tray.
· Ability to change the wallpaper once at Windows logon.
· Easily find duplicate images and delete them.
· Easily find non existing images and delete them.
· Play a sound each time the wallpaper is changed.
· Shell integration allows you to add more wallpapers to your wallpaper list straight from Windows Explorer.
· System wide hotkeys allow you to easily go to the next wallpaper, show main window, start cycling, ...
· Double click on the system tray icon to quickly cycle to the next wallpaper (this is disabled by default).
· Make the text of icons on the desktop transparent.

Limitations:

· There are two separate versions of Wallpaper Cycler:
· Wallpaper Cycler Lite is the freeware version and has limited functionality but is fully functional as a basic wallpaper cycler and is not time limited.
· If you want a much more powerful wallpaper cycler you should get the full (pro) version.
· The trial version of NuonSoft Wallpaper Cycler has the following limitations.
· You can only run the trial 30 times. After that, your trial copy has expired.
· You cannot export layouts.
· The freeware version of Wallpaper Cycler has the following limitations but can be used as a fully functional basic wallpaper cycler.
· No layout system (because of this: no quotes, no calendars, no RSS feeds, no notes...).
· No tags.
· No search folders.
· No effects system.
· No gradient and URL wallpapers.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· The text editors now have an extra button to insert a line break without a visible horizontal line
· The Info Panel now contains a "Set As Wallpaper" button in the upper right corner to make it easier to render the selected wallpaper to the desktop
· Wallpaper Cycler will now by default store the rendered wallpaper in "C:Users\AppDataRoamingNuonSoftWallpaperCycler" or similar depending on the language of your Windows and whether you are running XP, Vista or Windows 7. Previously WPC would store the image in the user temp folder, but some tools cleanup the temp folder causing a plain colored background to appear on the next reboot of Windows
· An "Options..." menu item in the Wallpaper Cycler notification icon menu
· The COM DLL has been removed because it gave too much problems on 64 bit versions of Windows. Replaced by a WPCController tool
· The fullscreen preview now shows a '(Image x of y)' in the lower left wallpaper information block
· New WPCController tool. This is a...