Desktop Utilities

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Make your computer desktop more dynamic, interactive, useful, and fun. The Wallpaper Changer XP Power Toy allows your desktop wallpaper to change automatically. It also lets you choose which images to display. Select the folder of images to display as a slide show and set the display interval to change wallpaper every few minutes, hours, or days. The simple intuitive interface is easily available from the system tray. Click Here

To use desktop themes you need a theme manager, and the one of the best available is Desktop Themes by Left Side Software. It is totally free to download and use, and at only $US15 to register if you decide to keep it, it is significantly cheaper than Microsoft Plus! and other theme solutions available. As well as being a theme manager, Desktop Themes is also a full theme creator and editor, letting you create themes to give to your friends, family or the world in just a few easy steps! Click here for free download

!Easy ScreenSaver Studio is a nifty and cool ScreenSaver maker software to make your own ScreenSavers easily as well as a ScreenSaver management tool. You can add image files or acquire images to be included from your digital camera/scanner directly and display them with transitions. You can also add background music to your creation, using popular formats of audio files(mp3,mid,wav,wma...). More features such as image editing, password protection, wallpaper setting and more are included. You don't have to save a separate project file, because !Easy ScreenSaver Studio can open and edit your .SCR/.EXE file directly. To create a self-installing slideshow ScreenSaver is also easy. You can even make, distribute and sell your own shareware ScreenSavers or make ScreenSavers for commercial purpose. You can also management your ScreenSavers including those that are not made by !Easy ScreenSaver Studio. We highly recommend this product to the digital camera users and digital photo fans. Buy !Easy ScreenSaver Studio (Standard Licence)

Love to play cards? Many customizable options and rule settings, and supports MIDI music, sound effects, card animation, speech output, drag-and-drop operation, and user defined card backs and play area wallpapers Just want to practice so you can beat the pants of all your friends? These are the best of the best.

BigPatience is a collection of 40 solitaire card games ranging from simple to very hard, from popular to very rare. Additional features: selectable decks and backs of cards, textures for background, sound effects, undo, the detailed help. Demo version includes 8 card games: Aribert, Braid, Cat's Tail, Chinese, Merry Twos, Napoleon's Tomb, Shifted Cross, Star. Click here for Big Patience

Big Jig has hundreds of downloadable jigsaws available. You can choose between eleven levels of difficulty for each picture and cut your image up to 950 figured pieces, with or without rotation. Comes with Puzzle Maker so you can even make your own. New free jigsaw every week. Click here for Big Jig.

Big Mosaic is a logic game similar to jigsaw puzzles.
The goal is to make up two mosaic pictures from rectangular two-sided tiles. You can rotate tiles, turn them upside down and change over any two tiles. You are able to assemble both pictures separately or mix their tiles to make a task more difficult. To make it even more difficult, you can choose the mode when you see only the active tile and the tiles already solved. The tiles size and shape depend on your wish (number of tiles is up to 1600). The game can be saved. After registration, you will gain access to more than 90 puzzles made of professional photos or famous paintings. Also you will get the MosMake utility for making your own puzzles. Click here for Big Mosiac

Five checkers-like games, including three variations of common checkers
(English, International, and Russian), Losing Checkers
and Alquerque (the oldest checkers game ever known).
You can choose three levels of skill for computer opponent or play with a friend. With the Undo command and the Game Record list, you can take back your moves or return to any of previous moves. To easily find a move where you have made a mistake, you can look all the game from the very beginning as a cartoon. The game can be saved to continue playing afterwards. Those who like beautiful graphics have an opportunity to choose the board and checkers design. Click here for Fine Checkers