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Artdocks' Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper is freeware that animates your desktop wallpaper with a realistic-looking tropical fish. The fish swims around your desktop in an overhead view like you're looking down into a pond. The program's own background image is a soothing view of water, but you can use the fish with your own wallpaper pictures, too.
Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper can be activated from its desktop icon, a Start Menu entry, the system tray, or the program's Start Menu Folder, but not from the usual Desktop Background control on Explorer's Personalize menu. Opening the program let us click Yes to replace our desktop wallpaper or No to keep our current background image. The program's attractive, watery background image opened, and it wasn't long before the animated tropical fish swam slowly across the screen. We could change the background image normally without stopping the animated fish, too. A system tray icon let us pause or exit the program or access more animated wallpaper programs at the developer's Web site, but it offered no additional settings, such as the ability to alter the size and type of fish or its swimming speed.
Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper is attractive, interesting, easy to use, and free. Its animated display even offers a kind of screensaver-like function by varying pixels. It's really quite pleasant and soothing, and much like watching real fish in a tank, it can help banish stress, too.
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The Fish Desktop Wallpaper for example, a bird's eye view can be seen swimming in aranyhallal adds a Desktop. It was very impressive, as the windows in the Taskbar and swims over a relatively large ornamental fish.
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All versions:
1.7 starsout of 14 votes
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Current version:
1.7 starsout of 14 votes
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"the fish is satan's child"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
nice virtual fish movement, not the best realistic look but interesting, really enjoyed the moment
Cons
after uninstall of the Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper, the fish still appears umremovable while still swimming across the screen.
Summary
now trying to figure out how to remove this evil unremovable fish aka satan's spawn of annoyance.
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"not so good"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
good to see fish swimming on ur lappy
Cons
not easy to remove
Summary
To remove it first uninstall it, then go to your C: drive. There will be a folder of it containing images of the fish. Delete that folder & u r done. Enjoy!
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"Can't get rid of the fish."
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
I didn't find anything good about the program.
Cons
I downloaded the program and didn't like it, so I deleted it. The fish is still swimming across my screen. I can't get rid of it.
Summary
I would love to get rid of the fish. When I try, an alert comes up that access is denied. If anyone has any answers, I sure would appreciate it.
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"I like it ,you could change the background"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
nice graphic
Cons
only one fish swiming on desktop
Summary
next update more fish
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"It was exactly as described."
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
You get what you are told to expect.
Cons
I would have preferred a side view of the fish. Not as active as I would have liked and the addition of several more fish would have helped.
Summary
I uninstalled because I wanted more than was available.
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"Looks good to start with but soon gets on your nerves"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
Just a novelty
Cons
Hard to get rid of
Summary
When I tried to uninstall with Windows it only removed the background
The fish carried on moving across the desktop. Crazy -
"works well"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
starts up with the computer
Cons
wanted to uninstall, which I did, but the fish is still swimming about
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"Its good for nothing"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
when i download and install it, It slows my pc performance takes more cpu memory
Cons
When i uninstall it due to heavy memory consuming i got the error and then i see the uninstall complete msg but after uninstalling it, the fish is not leaving my desktop it appears again and again
Summary
I suggest not to download it
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"Bad quality and difficult to uninstall."
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
None worth mentioning.
Cons
I was disappointed by the graphics quality. The fish's movement was not realistic. I tried to uninstall and had great problems doing so.
Summary
Not worth the effort.
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"Nice idea but very slow"
Version: Animated Fish Desktop Wallpaper 1.0
Pros
Nice animation but needs to move faster...no controls to suit the user
Cons
slows the system...no speed controls...don't send us stuff to try that we can't uninstall !!!...
Summary
Leave it alone unless it gets better...read the reviews
I will back off CNET recommendations from now on because of this one...***** to get rid of....
