We all need variety in our lives, it’s how we are, using the same setup or seeing or doing the same thing over and over leads to monotony and can make things really boring. Well, the same thing pretty much applies to your computer, you see Firefox harboring thousands of user created themes into their inventory for variety, thousands of desktop themes and also skins for many applications are all incorporated to enhance user experience and provide variety.
Well, it would be great to treat your eyes to a different wallpaper every time you login to your computer or after a period of time as well. Below are 5 absolutely free applications for your Windows OS that lets you do just that.
This is probably the most popular application that lets you rotate and display wallpapers. It lets you display your own personal photos as well as photos directly downloaded from the Webshots website, however these would carry branding of Webshots.
2. Moody Desktop (Windows XP/Vista)
This is another application which lets you rotate wallpapers on each login or based on a predefined time slice. Unlike Webshots, this application is developed solely for this purpose, wallpapers have to be set from your personal collection.
3. John’s Background Switcher (All Windows Except 7 + .NET Framework)
This is another application dedicated to having variety on your desktop background at a frequency you prefer. This application is great as it could automatically display wallpapers from popular photo sharing services like Flickr, Picasa, etc. and display them based on tags. This also allows to randomly rotate background images from your own computer as well.
4. Walyk Wallpaper Changer (Windows 2k, XP, Vista)
This is similar to Moody Desktop and offers the same features, automatically switch wallpapers when you restart your computer or based on a predefined time.
5. Wallpaper Changer (Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP)
Very matter of fact name and does exactly what it says, lets you change your wallpapers automatically based on a predefined time or each time you restart your computer.
Personally, I don’t use any of these applications but I’d pick John’s Background Switcher and Webshots as my favorites, up to you though, share your take on these apps or suggest similar ones in the comments.
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Is there a way to have my desktop background automatically changed on a set time period? I know this is a native feature of Apple’s OS X, but is there a way to do it in Windows?
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Cool info. It will be more interesting to work on computer. when your background is changing after a time period. Its new for me and i am going to have it.
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Wow ! now i can make my desktop more attractive. You are doing nice job to share it.
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