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Desktop Lux

Decorate and customize the look and feel of your Windows desktop

Desktop LuxOverview

Effects

Customize your system with stunning animations and effects. Desktop Lux is a one-of-a-kind program that brings you amazing assortment of Windows GUI enhancement capabilities. Choose from dozens of visual effects, including: falling leaves, fireflies, rain, thunderstorms, space flight, garlands, confetti, balloons, various mouse cursor effects and many others. You can find ones that suit a specific season, holiday, or just your mood.

Live Wallpapers

Bring your desktop to life. Desktop Lux is the all-in-one solution for turning a static Windows desktop into live vibrant scenery. You can choose from hundreds of videos in the program's library or use your own files to personalize your desktop. You can use any type of video file supported by your system.

Web Wallpapers

This awesome feature allows you to set HTML websites as your desktop background. For instance, you might like to set your Twitter page as wallpaper to see the latest tweets. Similarly, some users might want to set a news website as their desktop background to see the latest news on the desktop instead of a static wallpaper.

Most users are not aware of this, but the good old Windows XP allowed users to set a webpage as wallpaper without the help of third-party software. A feature called Active Desktop allowed users to use a webpage as the desktop background in Windows XP. Even the Mac operating system will enable users to set a website as the desktop background without the help of third-party tools.

The Active Desktop feature was dropped from Windows Vista and is not present in the latest Windows 11 as well.

Luckily, setting a webpage as the desktop background is not a difficult task if you using Desktop Lux. You can take the help of the program to use a website or webpage as Windows wallpaper with a few clicks.

Screensaver as wallpaper

Now you can enjoy your favorite screensaver not only while your computer is idle, but also while you work.

Tweaks

Everything required to customize and tweak Windows elements, the taskbar and Windows desktop can be found on this section.

If you are using your Windows PC for a long time, there are chances that you want to tweak the style of your work. But personalizing it is not that simple as you need to play with your Windows registry as well as various added-on touch-ups which are simply not that easy to do. Thankfully, there is a tool out there that can make it easier to customize Windows with just few clicks.

Customizes the look of your system according to your preferences by tweaking File Explorer, Desktop, Start, Taskbar and Notification area; Adds files, folders and system items to This PC, and Desktop; Manages the context menu when right click the file, folder, etc.

Cursor

Easily, with just one click, change your usual mouse pointer to interesting cursors from our collection, most of which are animated. There are cursors on a variety of topics, so you can choose one that suits the rest of the system’s decoration.

In addition to the new cursor look, you can enable different visual effects that will appear when you use the mouse.

Automatic Screensaver Changer

This tool is designed to those who have many beautiful screen savers and who can't decide which one is the most beautiful, which one deserve of being set onto Windows desktop. Now you can have all your screen savers run on your screen in turn, and this is without any need to tweak the Windows Setup every time you want a little change.

Automatic Wallpaper Changer

More often than not, we get bored with our current desktop wallpaper as the time passes. By changing the desktop wallpaper, you can give the system a totally new look.

Setting a new wallpaper in Windows is nothing hard. All you have to do is right-click on your favorite image and select the option “Set as Wallpaper.”

However, it would be even better if you could have an app that could automatically set a new gorgeous wallpaper every single day or through another interval.

In the application, you can configure the replacement of wallpaper on a schedule. Just choose one or more image sources.

Night Light

Is your computer keeping you up late? This tool will warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting. It makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Built-in Screensavers

The program includes screensavers for playing any video files and opening any web pages.

NEW

- The app became available for FREE;
- Optimized effects performance;
- Other minor improvements.

Desktop LuxInformation

Version
1.3
Date
06.23.25
License
Free
Language
English
File Size
15.99 MB
Developer
Operating Systems
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
System Requirements
No additional system requirements.
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