Automatic Wallpaper Changer is designed to do one thing well: allow you to change your desktop wallpaper on a timed basis.

The time between changes is defined as a number of seconds, minutes or hours.

The displayed image can be stretched for the best fit to the screen, maintaining its aspect ratio, or displayed at its actual size.

When displaying actual size the user is not limited to the centre of the screen, as is usually the case in windows, but can choose to display the picture in any of the four corners of the screen or centred on one of the edges.

Additionally you can specify that files smaller than a predefined size should be tiled: again you can specify how the tiles are justified on the screen rather than simply going from the top left.

The AWC is minimised to the system tray rather than to the task bar.

To restore it to view just double-click the icon in the tray or right click to pop up a menu. Image formats supported are BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, RLE.

Here are some key features of "Automatic Wallpaper Changer":

· Select files from multiple directories and their subdirectories if required
· Multiple resizing options: Full Screen, Best Fit and Worst Fit
· When resizing you can pick the method that gives your pictures the best result (Catmull-Rom and Lanczos supported)
· Multi-monitor systems can display the image properly resized on all monitors or display a different image on each monitor
· Tile a background image onto the screen before displaying the wallpaper on top of it
· Enhance brightness, contrast and gamma correction independently from your monitor settings
· Change wallpaper at user defined intervals or once at startup
· Apply various graphic effects when displaying such as invert and emboss
· Use hotkeys to change the desktop on demand
· Check the selected directories to see if any new files have been added and add them to the display list
· Ensure that each image in the list is displayed only once, even across Windows sessions
· Virtually unlimited number of images can be displayed
· Use EXIF orientation flag in photographs to automatically rotate images
· Display the file name on the image
· Filter the files to display by age, date and minimum size
· Multiple tiling options
· Image formats supported are BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, RLE.

Limitations:

· 28 days trial period

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

· Removed comdlg32.ocx component because it caused problems on some systems
· All file save and file open dialogs now use use native API calls and should therefore reflect the style of the operating system better
· Image sizing and positioning now takes account of the task bar
· When restarting or otherwise doing a potentially long file search, the status bar now shows progress so that the system doesn't look frozen
· Added a graphical picture frame option
· Pictures containing Alpha channels or other transparency (PNG and GIF) are now rendered properly
· In view by file mode I've added a file info box
· If the setting to automatically check for new version at startup is on, no error message is displayed if there is not currently a connection to the internet
· Added an input box to enable the user to manually enter a UNC path. Hold key when clicking Add button
· Status bar shows file processing info during change process.
· Rotate desktop hotkey added ++
· Rewrote splash screen to be quicker and more compa...