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Verve version 2.5 released

Verve is a full featured wallpaper manager which extends on the base features provided by Windows. Skinnable, customisable and completely FREE, Verve has no competition when compet...

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Gregor Klevže 21 Aug 2014 805 views

Verve is a full featured wallpaper manager which extends on the base features provided by Windows. Skinnable, customisable and completely FREE, Verve has no competition when competing in either the freeware or shareware arenas! <BR> <BR>Link: http://www.545studios.com/

New to Version 2.5 are the following features:

- New Options dialog; removed menu clutter
- The ability to set small desktop icons on WindowsXP (already worked on Win9x/Me/2000)
- Set the Screen Work Area
- Splash screen and new About dialog
- Reworked Hot Keys
- Reworked the wallpaper Preview, now reflects the wallpaper´s style and also reacts to taskbar resizing/repositioning!
- Set the work area when Verve starts
- Close Verve after a wallchange on Windows startup
- Configurable thumbnail sizes; set them to a fixed size or constrain them proportionally by either their width or height!

Heres a run down of all of the features to date:

- Freeform skinnable
- A simple list to which you add all your wallpapers, all list items can be sorted and also renamed
- Use any JPEG, GIF or BMP files, verve converts format for you
- Use html files too for the active desktop
- View a thumbnail of each wallpaper, thumbnail sizes are configurable
- Add a directory full of images at once
- Load and save wallpaper lists
- Add files directly from Windows Explorer
- Set a file as wallpaper directly from Windows Explorer
- Scheduled wallpaper changing
- Clear the desktop wallpaper (no wallpaper!)
- Hot keys

The following settings can be set individually for each wallpaper:

- Hide the desktop icons
- Set the wallpaper´s style (i.e. stretch, centre, tile)
- Set the desktop icon background to transparent
- Set the desktop icon text colour
- Set the desktop icon positions
- Set the desktop icon sizes

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