Splendid Desktop Helper

Splendid Desktop Helper is a lightweight desktop enhancement program whose purpose is to help you display screensavers and automatically change the wallpaper at a custom time.

You can find the utility running in the background without disturbing your work. The configuration settings can be accessed via the program’s icon from the system tray. The configuration panel does not impress much in the visual department because it does not look very intuitive so you may need to invest extra time into decoding the tool’s functions.

Splendid Desktop Helper gives you the possibility to download images from the Internet or add photos from your personal collection. If you opt for displaying online pictures, you may choose between different categories, such as Cartoon, Animal, Game, and Car.

Slideshow settings give you the possibility to change pictures after a user-defined time (in seconds), alter the photo positon (tile, stretch, or center), automatically set the wallpaper at a custom time interval (in seconds), show floating bubbles, and reveal custom dynamic text.

What’s more, you can make the application play Flash movies (SWF file format), play audio and video files (e.g. WAV, MP3, AVI, MPEG, AU, WMV), set the time delay (in minutes) before activating the photo slideshow, specify the runtime, adjust the transparency of the pictures, restore the default wallpaper, and set up a master password.

Splendid Desktop Helper needs a GUI facelift in order to help users configure the settings on the fly. The photo quality of the items downloaded from the Internet differs from low quality up to professional-looking pictures. There’s no proper way for importing custom photos from your collection. You cannot export the slideshows to EXE or SCR file format for easy file distribution.