- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (28-day trial); $5.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: March 02, 2009
- Total Downloads: 132,939
- Downloads last week: 818
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 59 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 02, 2009
This powerful wallpaper changer should satisfy the most demanding desktop decorators. The rather unassuming interface belies a bevy of options that give users the utmost in wallpaper control.
Automatic Wallpaper Changer's interface is not much to look at. Extreme novices (say, your great-grandmother) may not find it immediately evident how the program works, but helpful tool tips pop up when users hover over the screen elements. To most users it should be fairly obvious that on the first screen you can select a directory of photos, adjust the speed of the image change, and set the position of the photo on the desktop. For some this might be enough, but what really makes this program worth paying for are the features revealed in the Preferences menu. In addition to the sorts of options you'd expect, such as stretching and tiling, the Preference screen offers a multitude of other customizations. Some of the stand-outs include the capability to set a separate background image against which the wallpaper images appear, control over the images' opacity, a colorization feature, and a handful of special effects. Users have a tremendous amount of control over which images are displayed, including the capability to filter by date, size, and filename.
The only aspect of the program worth criticizing was a small but annoying lag when applying changes. The program otherwise runs smoothly and inconspicuously, and installs and uninstalls with no problems. Users should note that the trial version lasts 28 days; with so many options to play with, you may find that's not nearly long enough.
Publisher's description
From Steve Murphy :AWC is designed to be a one stop shop for displaying images as your desktop wallpaper. You can simply display your photos on your desktop or create spectacular wallpapers by merging your images with the background of your choice using powerful alpha-blended fades.
Just select one or more directories containing picture files and AWC will create a list of all the images contained in them, randomly select one and format it using a combination of the many available options.In version 4.4 you can now use alpha-blended fades to merge your pictures onto the background to produce spectacular, unique wallpapers. Plus a new screen saver makes your monitors electronic picture frames that display your wallpapers cleared of windows and icons.
What's new in this version:
In version 4.4 you can now use alpha-blended fades to merge your pictures onto the background to produce spectacular, unique wallpapers. Plus a new screen saver makes your monitors electronic picture frames that display your wallpapers cleared of windows and icons.
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User reviews of Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 59 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
Pros: interface is simple and relatively easy to use
Cons: Package is big
Program is very unresponsive and crashes a lotSummary: This is not quite what I have expected. The ad on their web site sounds better than the product it.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
Pros: too simple to be useful
Cons: its like a virus
you can't uninstall it right.Summary: searching for a better Wallpaper Cahnger
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
Pros: don have work on choosing 'em wallpapers.........but
Cons: when the windows starts it has to restart and if there is a good wallpaper we loose it......oh no
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
Pros: User Friendly
Cons: there's a cost in the long run
Summary: free, for a while...........check it out...........
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.4
"simple, clean interface, and works great"
Pros: can look into the subdirectories of a given directory, display different images on multiple monitors, display the filename over the image with user-settable opacity, gamma correction, etc. Super cheap (many others are $20+, this is only 5 pounds).
Cons: haven't found any yet. it's not free, but the free ones are not nearly as powerful.
Summary: This is the best and cleanest wallpaper changer I've found yet. I haven't used every one on download.com, but I've tried several and this one was the simplest and cleanest, with lost of features if you want them. I paid the 5 pounds... worth it.
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