WinFaceOff

WinFaceOff is an application you can use to schedule desktop wallpapers to automatically rotate at a regular time interval. It can also play music in the background. The tool features an intuitive set of options that can be tackled with ease even by those unfamiliarized with such software.

Runs in the systray

Once launched, it creates an icon in the taskbar notifications area. This way, it becomes non-intrusive and lets you carry on with your normal PC activity while running in the background.
The main panel has a simple design and neatly structured layout, where you can indicate a directory whose containing images you want to take into account for desktop rotation, along with a folder that contains audio tracks to play music.

Configure wallpaper rotation settings

As far as configuration options are concerned, you can play the slideshow images in sequential or random order, set the frequency for changing wallpapers (seconds), fit the images to the screen, center, tile or stretch them, as well as set up a hotkey to change the current wallpaper on the spot.
In addition, you can make the frame stay on top of other windows, ask the utility to autorun at every Windows startup until further notice, or disable the tray icon.

Portability advantages

The entire program's wrapped in a single .exe file that can be saved to a custom directory on the hard drive or copied to a removable storage unit, in order to seamlessly run WinFaceOff on any computer with minimum effort. It doesn't have software requirements or add new entries to your system registry. However, it auto-creates and updates an .ini file to remember your settings on exit.

Conclusion

To sum it up, WinFaceOff comes bundled with practical and straightforward options for setting the desktop wallpaper to automatically change. CPU and RAM usage was minimal in our tests.