When we spend a lot of time on the computer, a good way to regain concentration can be the appearance of a beautiful image or a photograph taken on vacation, useful for raising morale and awakening the senses. Generally, changing the desktop wallpaper is not something that comes so often in the workplace because it is not too professional and at home because frivolity could not be shared with the pleasure of a beautiful background.
The fact remains that, for those who spend a lot of time in front of a computer, it is advisable to find distractions to make work less tedious.
Among the many customizations that can be done on the desktop and seen on this blog, a very important part is made by the choice of the background or wallpaper to be seen on the PC screen.
In another article we had seen the best sites to find the most beautiful images to put as a background, on this page instead we list some tools that make these images turn and rotate, periodically, at defined time intervals so that you can always see a different one every day.
There are so many programs to automatically change the desktop wallpaper on your PC and it is difficult to find one that is better than another. My choice goes on 5 small tools because they are 100% free and because they are light, that is, they take up little memory and do not slow down the computer.
I already know that for some, this fact of occupying RAM for a program that rotates the background images, is an avoidable nuisance however I believe that modern personal computers and laptops are really oversized in terms of performance capacity therefore also wasting a couple of Megabytes of memory I don't think is a problem.
1) Juggler wallpaper
Wallpaper Juggler allows you to change the wallpaper automatically using the photos and images chosen on the PC .
Among the options it is possible to set a folder with inside the image files that are taken at random by the program, choose the time interval and the time in which it must be changed and select the automatic start with Windows. Among other features it has a button for searching and downloading new images to use as backgrounds.
2) John's Background Switcher
John's Background Switcher is truly a well-made and feature-rich program. In rotating the backgrounds you can decide whether to take the images from the computer or from the internet by giving the addresses of your profile on the various photography social networks .
In addition to being able to use the photos on Flickr and Picasaweb, he also manages to use Facebook photos, not only those uploaded to his profile but also those of his friends . Among other things, it also supports multiple monitors, allows you to choose the change time interval, set filters on the "tags" (if you use photos taken from the internet) and then also choose which images to see giving preferences that avoid the program to draw random images. The program is available for both Windows and Mac.
3) Pulse
Pulse is a program that changes the wallpaper automatically after a certain period of time. The configuration window is minimal, you can just enter a word in English which will be the theme of the chosen images.
The backgrounds come from the Rewalls website and are of great quality.
4) Bing Desktop
Bing Desktop is the official Microsoft program to change the background of Windows every day with images from the Bing.com site.
These features integrate seamlessly on all versions of Windows still supported.
5) WPTimer
WPTimer is a portable program that should not be installed and which perhaps will please those who do not intend to "dirty" the computer with unnecessary programs.
WPTimer is a really small tool that does its job by taking the image folder files as backgrounds and automatically rotating them as desktop backgrounds. It does everything by itself and to add new photos, just copy them or save them in the images folder, the default one that is usually inside the documents.
6) MuralPix
MuralPix is a program that makes a few more changes to the desktop because, in addition to rotating the backgrounds and changing them automatically at defined time intervals, it puts icons around the image which therefore will not be full screen.
In addition to this, it also adds an overprinted calendar on the monitor and allows you to change the wallpaper even manually by pressing a button.
7) DeskSlide
DeskSlide is another program to rotate desktop background images and automatically change the wallpaper.
Small and light, it is recommended not to be felt on the memory consumption of the computer.
8) ZapBing
ZapBing is a program different from the others because it puts the images and photos used by the Bing search engine as wallpaper on the desktop, which change every day and are very beautiful to look at.
Once installed it will place itself in the system bar at the bottom right and automatically change the backgrounds based on the images transmitted by the Bing search engine.
9) Photostand
Photostand is similar to previous software and allows you to change the desktop wallpaper automatically, at a set time or frequency and by choosing the images to be displayed from a folder chosen on the computer.
If we want to transmit photos of the holidays or all our shots taken, we can configure this program to rotate the images among those selected.
10) Wally
Wally is a wonderful software for Windows, which changes the desktop wallpaper every day by taking an image from the best wallpaper sites, such as Bing, Picasa, Buzznet, Photobucket, deviantART and others.
Just set a word such as "planes" or "race cars" to always see different images on the desktop. In the settings you can also decide whether to keep the photos used by Wally or whether to delete them from the cache.
12) Conclusions
Finally I remember PhotoJoy, a very nice and functional program to animate the desktop with many functions ranging from the creation of backgrounds, to personalized screensavers, to collages including the option to act as a wallpaper changer.
For those who want to animate the desktop, I always remember the article on hypnotic and moving backgrounds.
I am sure there are many others, only that by looking for them on the internet, I realized that, when we talk about desktop backgrounds it is like talking about emoticons for messengers and you encounter a lot of deceptive websites, with programs passed off as free but full of advertisements and with many others for a fee. We personally recommend that you try ZapBing and Wally immediately to have automatic backgrounds very nice to look at.
