Best Free Wallpaper Changer Contender

[brunetu]

I have already posted a hot find of this and I've also commented on the section's web page, but I think the discussion is going to become longer so I thought I'd better try here.

My top contender recommendation is Wallpaper Slideshow LT . I've just used it for a minute or so, so I can only tell that it has no nags for now (and it is absolutely free, no adware / toolbars included in the program's setup).

- unlike with other freeware, the number of wallpapers it can handle and manage is virtually unlimited;
- smart quality resize method (bicubic with prefilter), a feature usually present in the commercial versions of cometitor's products;
- run once at startup and optionally close itself or running as an icon in system tray and changing wallpapers at a chosen time interval;
- changing the wallpapers randomly / sequentially;
- auto-fit layout option (resize the wallpaper to desktop resolution keeping its aspect ratio);
- individually customize background color of each wallpaper;
- multiple monitor suport - optionally use different wallpapers for each monitor

Pluses are the clean interface, clear functions and ease of usage, low resource consumption, several formats of image supported.

No rating of wallpapers to use more often or auto-crop functions.

I haven't checked whether it supports command-line arguments for changing the wallpaper.

EDIT: Oh and it supports watch-folders / folder-synchronization too (just use "add folder" instead of "add all images in folder")

[MidnightCowboy]

I'll also repeat my main site comment here in case folks check this for themselves and start wondering

Please note that the website rating for gphotoshow has one caution for vendor reliability and a couple of others are fairly close. This is almost certainly the result of either confusion or malicious manipulation. Wallpapers themselves are a favored transport medium for malware writers and maybe some users are confusing this with the program they use to change them?

I checked this program again today with Virus Total and it returned clean with zero hits.