Wallpaper Changer

Wallpaper Changer is a simple app that enables you to set up different wallpapers to automatically rotate on the screen. For example, you can use it on Windows XP, which doesn't have a built-in feature for this.

The installation procedure is speedy and the only noticeable aspect about it is that the tool offers to integrate itself into the Windows autostart sequence. You can opt out of this, though.

It launches in the system tray and automatically starts changing the wallpaper using this default configuration. It's possible to play and stop the slideshow anytime from the right-click menu, as well as to access the settings panel to make changes.

By default, the app uses sample images included in the installed files. It allows up to five pictures to be applied as the desktop wallpaper, offering support for JPG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, EMF and WMF file types.

Unfortunately, you cannot load all five pictures a time. Instead, it's necessary to browse for each one while taking into account that you're also establishing the rotation order. Perhaps a simple solution would've been to import multiple pages into a list and then re-arrange them.

Before starting the slideshow, the program also gives you the possibility to set the rotation frequency, in seconds. Plus, you can make it automatically run at Windows startup or disable this option, depending on what you've selected at setup. Apart from the fact that there's keyboard shortcut integrated for stopping the slideshow, there are no other notable options available.

Unsurprisingly, the utility left a small footprint on system resources in our tests. It didn't hang, crash or prompt errors. Although its options are a bit rudimentary, Wallpaper Changer serves its purpose.