WallMagician - A free desktop wallpaper manager

WallMagician v1.0

Make your desktop more interesting by using wallpapers!

Old desktop

New desktop!

WallMagician is a free desktop wallpaper manager for Windows. Click here to view the program's screenshots.

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 (WallMagicianSetup.exe, 1.05 MB, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003)

After downloading the setup above, simply double-click the WallMagicianSetup.exe file in the folder you downloaded it to 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 Wallpaper Vault.