Xymantix releases Wallpaper XChange

Published on July 17, 2004 By Xymantix In WinCustomize News

Wallpaper XChange is a image browser/viewer program that's used as a convienent and powerful way to set your Windows wallpaper. It has a host of useful features, including:

It allows you to set .bmp, .gif, .jpg, and .png images files as wallpaper
It has a graphical image browser to help select a particular file, with customizeable image sizes
It offers a listview of image files and allows you to sort by name, size, date, or resolution
It color codes the image resolutions to easily identify those with the same ratio as your screen
It has a preview area complete with monitor effects such as inner shadows and a glare
It has an optional caching system to make loading directories lightning quick
It allows you to easily remove/copy/rename files, and supports drag and drop
It offers high quality bicubic interpolation to resample images to your screen resolution
It has an image viewer mode that shows the picture in its own window, resizable to zoom in/out
It's resizable so make the directory browser and preview area large or small

Goto http://www.xymantix.com/programs/wallpaper_xchange.html for more details and the download link

Comments (Page 2)

Pacific

on Jul 18, 2004

What an awesome piece of software...!!!!

Wet Monkey

on Jul 19, 2004

Another brilliant and amazing program from Xymantix!! This is incredible. Thanks so much

hashonboat

on Jul 19, 2004

I have quite a few walls in my wall directory..It only displays about half of them..Is there a limit to how many it can display?

Fuzzy Logic

on Jul 19, 2004

Since the initial reaction to this program it's caused me serious problems. For one, no matter how many times I change the wallpaper, it always reverts to the first set wallpaper on re-boot. Secondly, and more serious, every single image on my pc has appeared under wallpaper in display properties. In my case that's over 10000 images....!!!
Fortunately I did a full back-up before installing. I've now restored from back-up and everything is fine. I won't be installing this program again.

Xymantix

on Jul 19, 2004

Hi Fuzzy,

The program does absolutely nothing with extension registration or anything shell related. All it does is save a copy of the specified image as a .bmp in the program directory, set the current wallpaper to that image, and send the system message that the wallpaper has changed. Are you *sure* that something else couldn't have interferred? If the problem is in any way related to the program, I'd definitely like to solve it. But, I've tested on 2 XP systems, 3 Windows 2000 systems, and a Windows 98 without seeing any of these issues.

ragtech

on Jul 19, 2004

FuzzyL/Xymantix,

just an fyi

I've checked my system for these abnormalities as well, all seems well. Seems to be working as designed.

zxtt

on Jul 19, 2004

I installed this program at home - no problems. I haven't installed it at work, but I did just look at the wallpapers under display properties and I noticed more than I expected there - apparently everything I have in My Pictures and its subdirectories is in the list.

Furthermore, this path: "REG:\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpaper\MRU" in the registry has entries with binary data, with what looks like Unicode text embedded containing the names of the pictures.

Remember, this is system with Wallpaper XChange.

Wet Monkey

on Jul 19, 2004

I have also had installed and running, since the first day it came out, switching between .jpeg and .png files flawlessly

Koasati

on Jul 20, 2004

I see nothing out of the ordinary in display properties since installing this app.

neophil78

on Jul 21, 2004

Should be very nice if the prog should manage (apart from subfolders) themes categories.
I try to explain what i mean :

Okay there are a few wallpapers of any sizes which can be stored in subfolders by sizes ... What whould be great is to be able to define categories taken off from these different subfolders and named whatever user want. Ex i get some walls which i want to use for a specific WB skin, some are in 1600, some are in 1024, some are in 1152 and so on. These are stored in different subfolders, but i'd want to get a "MyNameWallpaper" ion to be applyed with walls from these ...

Should it be possible to do that ???

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