Moreover, those who find themselves checking a certain website more often than they expected can set it as a background to avoid having an extra browser window dedicated to previewing the weather, traffic information, email inbox or the latest news. Alternatively, one can also drag and drop their own animated or static pictures to streamline the experience by handling all wallpaper-setting activities via the app’s interface. On top of the preloaded offerings, users have a dedicated online gallery at their disposal to bring more variety to their collection. Right-clicking any wallpaper lets you explore and edit its title, author and website source, preview it to get a taste of what your desktop will look like before applying it and tweak its contrast, brightness and playback speed to ensure the best viewing experience. This feature can be useful for those who like using each monitor as a separate workspace, since distinguishing among them with dedicated wallpapers can increase productivity. Multi-monitor users will breathe a sigh of relief at the sight of the program’s support for assigning separate wallpapers for each different screen that can also be duplicated or spanned across the displays according to the user’s preference. By default, there are 14 preloaded animated wallpapers to choose from, with some even supporting certain effects in the form of cartoonish eyes and colorful vectors that follow your cursor around for an interactive and relaxing experience when you minimize your currently running apps. When starting up the program, users are greeted to a two-pane layout that makes it easy to navigate the app’s various sections. As such, through the power of open-source software, the community took a popular desktop background setter and gave it a different interpretation in the form of an intuitive interface and support for more animations in a neat package known as Lively Wallpaper Metro. Despite Windows’ ever-expanding feature set, some users may not be able to overcome its lack of support for animated wallpapers.

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