
        Thank you for purchasing WallMaster Pro v3.0

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This ReadMe document provides basic information about WallMaster Pro.  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 Pro?
 4. Technical support
 5. Providing feedback and suggestions
 6. Release notes


1. System requirements

- Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or higher
- 486-DX2/DX4 or Pentium-compatible systems
- 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
- 2.5 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 Pro?

WallMaster Pro offers you total and complete management of your wallpaper collections. With WallMaster Pro, you can use any of your favorite images (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TGA, PCX, PCD, PSD, WMF, WPG, ICO, and CUR) as your desktop wallpaper easily. With easy-to-use control panel interface and  full context-sensitive help, you can surely master 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 standard Windows BMP images, you can also use JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, TIF, PCD and ICO as your desktop wallpaper.
- Support color reduction with image dithering to keep the quality of the source image.
- You can choose the wallpaper color resolution (grayscale, 16 color, 256 color, or true color).
- 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.
- Support hotkeys to control your desktop wallpaper quickly. 
- Fast search feature to get images from multiple directories at once. 
- Integrated files management feature (copy, move, delete, and rename files) to manage your wallpaper files easily from WallMaster Control Panel. 
- 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 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. Technical support

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


5. 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.


6. Release notes

See WHATSNEW.TXT for complete release notes.


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