
         Thank you for downloading WallMaster v2.0a

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This ReadMe document provides basic information about WallMaster.  If you have any questions about how to use this product, please refer first to the program's online help.  Also, visit the WallMaster pages on our web site (http://www.tropicalwares.com) for updates and more information.


Table of contents

 1. System requirements
 2. Installation
 3. What is WallMaster?
 4. Purchasing the commercial version of WallMaster
 5. Technical support
 6. Providing feedback and suggestions
 7. Distribution policy
 8. Release notes


1. System requirements

- Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 or higher
- 486-DX2/DX4 or Pentium-compatible systems
- 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
- 1.5 MB available hard drive space for program files
- Windows-compatible pointing device
- True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended)


2. Installation

If you receive this package as a ZIP file, unzip it using PKZIP or WinZIP and run the setup program. Or if you receive this package as a single EXE file, just run the EXE file to install WallMaster.


3. What is WallMaster?

WallMaster is a utility to help you configuring your desktop wallpaper easily. Incorporated with quite a lot of cool and outstanding features such as ability to use your favorite images (JPG, GIF, PNG, etc) as wallpaper beside BMP images, simple and intuitive control panel to customize your desktop wallpaper conveniently, full context-sensitive help, and many more... WallMaster will surely help you mastering your own desktop wallpaper in just a few minutes.

Key features include:

- User friendly interface with full context-sensitive help.
- Create collections of your favorite wallpapers and customize them as you like.
- Beside BMP images, you can also use JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, TIF, and ICO as your desktop wallpaper.
- You can program the wallpaper to change automatically after a specified time period (e.g. every 30 minutes).
- You may also use WallMaster to change desktop wallpaper every Windows startup.
- You can set the position of the wallpaper (tile, center, fit to screen, auto fit, or custom).
- You can use different background color for each wallpaper.  
- Play sound clip (WAV) when wallpaper changes.
- Use system tray to ease you control the wallpaper anytime.
- Fully compatible with Active Desktop from Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.
- You don't need to install Microsoft Plus! just to fit the wallpaper to screen because WallMaster's already provided you with the fit to screen and auto fit position for the wallpaper.
- Ability to hide your Windows desktop icons. 
- Preview window to preview your favorite wallpapers. No need to use huge graphics viewer software just to do so.
- Automatic detection of bad graphics files (empty/bad data, incomplete image, etc).
- Gamma correction support to fix dark images.
- And of course, easy installation and uninstallation.


4. Purchasing the commercial version of WallMaster

WallMaster Pro is the commercial version of WallMaster.
It has more powerful features to give you more power and control on your desktop wallpaper yet still keeping its simplicity and ease of use. WallMaster Pro offers total and complete management of your wallpapers!

You can purchase the licensed version of WallMaster Pro here: http://www.tropicalwares.com/wallpro.html

All orders are delivered electronically so you can get WallMaster Pro in just a few minutes!


5. Technical support

Please send your technical support questions to support@tropicalwares.com.


6. Providing feedback and suggestions

Your comments and suggestions on how to improve our software are most welcome. Please send them to support@tropicalwares.com. Thank you in advance for your time and support.


7. Distribution policy

You can distributed WallMaster freely. You may give it to your friends, clients, or anyone that you think might be interested. No additional fee is required. 

Please inform us if you want to distribute it on a CD-ROM or other media, just to make sure you are including the latest version. And please keep the archive unaltered and in its original state. If you want to distribute it in a different archive format like ARJ, LHA, RAR, or any other compression formats, you may contact us first for confirmation and support.

If you want to post a little review on newsgroup, magazine, TV, etc, and you need more references, you can find them on these URLs:
http://www.tropicalwares.com/wallmast.html
http://www.tropicalwares.com/awards.html
http://www.hotfiles.com/?000OO1

Contact us if you need further information. 


8. Release notes

See WHATSNEW.TXT for complete release notes.


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