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5 stars
Version: Crystal Wallpaper 1.1
"Does what it says, flawlessly"
Pros: This program is very simple to use, and the results are marvelous. Any picture the user chooses will be displayed on the screen transparently, and will remain there as the user surfs the web or does anything else. The program is a way to decorate one's desktop and to make using one's computer more enjoyable.
An important feature is that a picture can be displayed in a chosen degree of transparency, so the picture need never interfere with the reading of text on the screen. The transparency can be increased or decreased by 5% increments. Another option is to enlarge the image to fill the screen from top to bottom; and this does indeed fill the entire screen, including all toolbars. Another reviewer said that enlarging the images this much makes them blurry; but the transparency of the image makes this much less noticeable than it otherwise would be. Furthermore, one can always resize the image with Pixia or another program and then use that resized image with Crystal Wallpaper.
I love this program. I might actually buy it when the free trial is over.
Cons: During installation, before one has seen the options dialogue box, one is prompted to assign keys such as CTRL and ALT to specific functions. Doing this might actually prove to be an inconvenience, since other programs could be controlled with these keys. I chose not to assign functions to any keys, and found that it is quite easy to use the program's functions in the usual way.
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I ended up buying this program, as I said I might do in my review two years ago. Two years have passed, and I am still happy with it.
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