ABs Wallpaper Tray

If you’re keeping your workspace a clean environment, and we’re of course talking about the desktop, you most likely want to see a cool new picture in the background every now and then. This can easily be done through default Windows features, but a lot more can be achieved with ABs Wallpaper Tray.

The application wants to show you some of its potential right from the start, changing the wallpaper automatically with a preset picture, and adding more elements, such as a clock, calendar, and watermark text. The configuration panel also shows up, letting you set up the new wallpaper collection, and managing different behavior settings.

Sure enough you can keep a single picture so it doesn’t automatically changed, but you’re free to add more by simply dropping them in the dedicated space, or the source folder entirely. You can take advantage of formats like JPG, BMP, and GIF. You can’t create multiple collections, or groups, but you can add more pictures, and set them to change at random intervals.

Apart from change sequence, time options let you configure transition to as low as 1 minute. What’s more, it can be set to change when interacting with the corresponding tray icon, on startup, as well as through hotkeys, for even less effort.

Multiple types of positioning techniques are at your disposal to try and fit any kind of image on your screen, center, stretch, or tile. For more variety, the application also comes with a simple color editor, allowing you to change gamma, brightness, and RGB values for every picture, or have colors inverted.

As mentioned above, the application adds a few extra elements, which you can leave on screen, or disable. You most likely noticed the calendar, clock, and watermark text. These can all be fully configured in terms of font style, size, shape, transparency, and color, as well as position by simply dragging them around the desktop.

In case you’re using resource-hungry applications, you can add a delay to the process if CPU usage is equal, or above a specific percentage, or when the PC is locked. It’s also possible to enable it to run at startup, quietly sitting in the tray, and taking care of the desktop background.

ABs Wallpaper Tray is a powerful desktop enhancement tool, fitted with more than just the means of changing the wallpaper at regular time intervals. Sure enough it can do part of what Windows can, but it also comes with its own extra features, making it worth at least a try.