Desktop Effects – Add Special Effect to your desktop

Desktop Effects is an application that adds special effects to your desktop. Forget the old boring and static wallpaper! Show a dynamic photo slideshow on your desktop, or just use it to scribble notes.

• Now Experimentally Supports Windows XP!
• Added Vista x64 binaries – you will need to manually regsvr32 all of the DLLs

Requirements

• Now Experimentally Supports Windows XP!
• Windows Vista with Windows Aero (must be running)
• A sufficient graphic card – most Aero capable cards will do, except for some onboard cards.

A fire effect that follows the mouse.

Snow flakes falling on the desktop.

WMV Video with some small examples of Ave Desktop Effect’s running

Using

Right-click on an empty space of your desktop and choose the `Configure Desktop Effects’ item.

Configuring

After accessing the configuration menu through a right-click on the desktop, you will be able to pick any of the installed effects:

Select `Default Wallpaper’ for no effect. The individual effects can configured by double-clicking on them or by selecting them and then clicking on the `Configure’ button.

Download

A preview version of Desktop Effects can be downloaded, that will expire on February 14, 2008.

Make sure you have the following packages installed:

• Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Runtime Files
• DirectX 9.0c November 2007 Runtime

Download Installer — Important: this version will expire on February 14, 2008

Download 64-bit files — Important: this version will expire on February 14, 2008 (you will need to regsvr32 all DLLs yourself)