Custom Slide Show

Viewing photos or other kinds of graphical files onto a computer can be very easily done using the built-in viewer that Windows comes with, or through other specialized software solution. The ability to present the images in sequence, in the form of a slide show, is also rather common among the specialized utilities of this type.

One characteristic that might set apart these applications is the amount of system resources they use for carrying out this task. In case you have lots of high-quality photos taken with your digital camera or large wallpapers you downloaded from the Internet, viewing them altogether could actually put some stress on your PC.

To alleviate this possible shortcoming, you can try a tool like Custom Slide Show, which is barely noticeable when running. This very lightweight program is designed to make it a breeze for anyone to start a slide show with their favorite pictures.

With the help of this utility you will be able to check out your personal photo sin a matter of seconds. All you have to do is choose the source folder in the main window of Custom Slide Show and then input the desired interval (in seconds) between pictures.

Pressing the 'Start Slide Show' button will initialize the task, but be advised that it will take up all the desktop space once it begins. Also, some glitches may occur if you click the screen while the slide show is running and the images will become diminished and only part of them will be visible.

An evident shortcoming of Custom Slide Show is the very limited support for graphic files which restrains a lot its usage. To be more precise, this application is only capable of working with JPG and GIF types, so it is highly likely that the majority of users will prefer to look for something else.