- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (5 wallpapers rotating, watermark with rain); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 05, 2005
- Total Downloads: 149,211
- Downloads last week: 827
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 18 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This nifty desktop theme turns your monitor into a relaxing, rain-rippled water surface. Water Desktop comes bundled with two background pictures of flowers that rotate on your screen at a user-selected interval. The program's visual effect is quite realistic, making it tough to tell that the onscreen picture is not actually being rained upon. If you do not care for the flowers, you can choose to display your own images. The thunderstorm sound effects add a nice touch, and we appreciate the ability to customize the appearance of the actual raindrops and apply transition effects. The application also can display a calendar that lets you append simple memos, but you can disable it should you find its presence irksome. We should note Water Desktop exacted a hefty toll on performance when tested with an older PC, so make sure your machine is up to snuff before downloading it. All things considered, this application strikes us as a good remedy against stress.Publisher's description
From Xiaoxi Zhang Soft :Water Desktop will bring you closer to nature. This desktop can bring alive all the effects of nature. You can see water drops and waves running across the screen. See the effect the water drops create when they move across the screen. Also, you will see the effect of ripples being created by water. The ripples will run across the screen in circles and semicircles. You can get more than 30 kinds of wallpaper transitions. You also can make the surface ripple with your mouse by moving it over the desktop. Moreover, Water Desktop provides a beautiful desktop calendar and desktop quick note.
Version 3.0.1 adds optimize performance.
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- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 18 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Water Desktop 3.0.1
"Don't waste your time over this.."
Pros: The Calendar and the Memo Pad are the only things worthwhile from this product. But the font is too big practically takes up half of your screen. If your looking for something better than this, go to their official site, and you can find other useful downloads.. just not this one
Cons: There is no point in downloading this. The thunder gets annoying after a while, you have to "learn" how to customize the wallpapers.. it doesn't function properly anyway. Don't waste your time over this.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Water Desktop 3.0.1
Pros: The water effect is quite realistic if you have a good graphics card. The thunder is a nice touch as well. I have the free version now but am considering upgrading to the full one.
Cons: Don't really find much use for the calendar and memo pad.
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Version: Water Desktop 3.0.1
Pros: The water effect is cool, kicks to windows vista basic sceme
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Version: Water Desktop 3.0.1
Pros: Nice sounds, great pictures and water affects. The thunder scared me the first time I closed my windows.
Cons: the calendar inlay is a bit big and not very polished.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Water Desktop 3.0.1
Pros: absolut!
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