Desktop Slideshow

Desktop Slideshow is a utility for periodically cycling your desktop background image through a set of image files. There's not a lot else to say, really. It pretty much does what the name implies: plays a slideshow on your desktop.

Features

• Multi-user support; all users' settings are stored separately.
• Users can create multiple slideshows.
• Can run as a system-tray application, with access provided through a right-click menu on the tray icon.
• Can auto-play a slideshow on startup.
• Works properly from your Startup folder.
• Four image display modes: Centered, Stretched to fit screen, Scaled to fit screen (e.g. "letterboxed"), and Tiled.
• Can change your background image as fast as once per second (although this is not recommended).
• In-order and Random-order play modes.
• Can label images with their filenames while playing.

Features currently in planning but not yet implemented include:

• Ability to use images stored on the web (currently only uses images on your computer).
• Position, font, and color settings for image labels.
• Auto-generating slideshows based on image attributes (after Windows "Longhorn" ships).
• Ability to specify whether image directories in a slideshow should be searched recursively for images.

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP or later.
• .NET Framework v1.1 or later.
• ~120k free disk space

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