WallMagician v1.0

WallMagician is a free desktop wallpaper manager for Windows.

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Below lists the many features found in WallMagician:

  • Uses image filtering to preserve image quality when stretching/resizing images on your desktop. The following filtering methods can be selected: Lanczos (default), Mitchell, Nearest, Spline.
  • Supports drag/drop operations from Windows Explorer onto WallMagician's list box (can drag folders or images)
  • Categorize your wallpapers into Wallpaper "lists". Each list can have virtually unlimited number of wallpapers
  • Wallpaper styles supported: Tile, Center, Fit to Screen, Custom Position with Tile Around Image option (not available in Windows 95/98/Me), and Auto Fit
  • Each wallpaper can be customized to use a specific wallpaper style
  • Ability to rename image files on disk or send unwanted image files to Recycle Bin
  • Ability to clear your current desktop wallpaper, hide desktop icons, and change desktop color
  • Thumbnail tab displays thumbnails of all your wallpapers in your current list
  • You can print your selected image or thumbnails (print preview available!)
  • Reports can be exported to PDF or HTML files
  • WallMagician can change your desktop wallpaper whenever Windows starts up (with WallMagician auto-close option) or periodically in the time interval you specify
  • Wallpapers can be selected randomly
  • Wallpaper change can be suppressed if the screensaver is running
  • Sounds can be played during a wallpaper change (WAV files only)
  • Many functions are accessible via the program's tray icon including the ability to go back to the previous wallpaper
  • Supports the following image formats:
    - Alias/Wavefront images (*.rla; *.rpf)
    - Autodesk images (*.cel; *.pic)
    - CompuServe images (*.gif)
    - Dr. Halo images (*.cut)
    - Encapsulated Postscript images (*.eps)
    - JPG images (*.jfif; *.jpe; *.jpeg; *.jpg)
    - Kodak Photo-CD images (*.pcd)
    - Paintshop Pro images (*.psp)
    - Photoshop images (*.pdd; *.psd)
    - Portable map images (*.pbm; *.pgm; *.ppm)
    - Portable network graphic images (*.png)
    - SGI images (*.bw; *.rgb; *.rgba; *.sgi)
    - Tagged image file format images (*.fax; *.tif; *.tiff)
    - Truevision images (*.icb; *.tga; *.vda; *.vst; *.win)
    - Windows bitmaps (*.bmp; *.dib; *.rle)
    - Windows icons (*.ico)
    - Windows metafiles (*.emf; *.wmf)
    - ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.pcc; *.pcx; *.scr)

Click here to download the WallMagician Setup package (freeware, 1.06MB, uploaded 1/26/2004). After downloading, simply double-click the WallMagicianSetup.exe file and follow the onscreen instructions. To uninstall the program, use the "Add/Remove Programs" applet in Control Panel.

Note: currently, WallMagician does not include wallpaper files in the setup. You can find many wallpapers to download for free from Wallpapers.com.