Switch your desktop wallpaper periodically

Do you get bored of your background wallpaper? John's Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer to ensure it's always looking fresh.

John's Background Switcher allows you to configure when you want to change the background (such as every hour or every day) and you can specify which pictures to use in a number of ways. For example, one way is to select a list of specific pictures on your computer. Alternatively, you can direct John's Background Switcher to point at a particular folder such as 'My Pictures' and it will select random pictures from there.

It doesn't stop there though. John's Background Switcher also allows you to use Flickr to choose pictures by person, tags, sets or just randomly. There are several options that allow you to customize the look of images, such as by narrowing down the pictures or increasing the quality of those chosen.

John's Background Switcher is a simple but effective way to choose different backgrounds from a huge range of sources.

Changes

Add the option to customise the calendar font Add the option to override the logon screen for Windows 7 Add Russian, Finnish and Hungarian translations Add the option to customise the font used for displaying the picture info Add the option to not rotate postcards / polaroids Support Google Picasa web album feeds in 'RSS Feeds' mode Lower the minimum switching interval for Vista and Windows 7 Add a 'View Previous Picture' keyboard shortcut Add the option to choose a random image effect (eg. sepia, grayscale, etc) Add the option to customise the font on the postcard and polaroid piles Bug fixes

  • Pros

    • Allows you to select several different sources
    • Can use Flickr photos as background images
  • Cons

    • Doesn't work with all image format types
 0/3

App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Version

    5.7
  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Windows

    Other platforms (1)
  • OS

    Windows 8.1

  • Language

    English

    Available languages

    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Dutch
    • Chinese
  • Downloads

    26.9K

    Last month's downloads

    • 28
  • Size

    29.92 MB

  • Developer

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John's Background Switcher for PC

  • Free
  • In English
  • V5.7
  • 3.9
  • (95)

User reviews about John's Background Switcher

by Kovinda Karnanayake

Love it, has every feature i need except sequential wallpaper changing for locally stored wallpaper.

by Gregory Appel

The app is OK but the services it integrates with produce poor quality pictures. As a result - crappy user experience. I am removing this app as these images tend to irritate me rather than calm me down.

by Anonymous

Same images keep appearing others never appear from the same folder. The program works great but the randomize seems to select the same images. I have 200 images in a folder but the same images repeatedly appear and others never appear.

by Anonymous

great program, mostly reliable - very nearly 10/10. feature packed, lots of options. Periodically adds new features and continous improvement and development. Great program. Only complaint is that I have had it tend to crash on some systems, and haven't been able to track down root cause yet. That has only happened on one system out of ~ 7 I've used it on, so not many marks off for it. Fantastic program. Pros: flexible display of imageslots of image source optionstons of customizable settings Cons: can be a little slow at timesHas been spotty on some systems (seizes up)

by Anonymous

Really Interesting. Wife and I both love this utility. Went up to National Geographic and retrieved a lot of great photos. Makes me smile all day.

by Anonymous

love it. I use this soft on three computers (win XP, Win 7, Vista). Works perfect and syncs well with various services. Pros: my desktop is always fun to look at. Cons: none.

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