Desktop Freebies
Welcome to freebielist.com's Desktop Freebies section where you'll find free screensavers, skins, desktop wallpaper, and other free desktop stuff. With so many enhancements available free of charge, you needn’t stay with that boring factory wallpaper your computer manufacturer provided. Neither do you have to settle for a standard screensaver or colour scheme. Personalise your computer your way! Let’s face it, we spend more time in front of screens than ever before, so it might as well be as pleasing on the eye as possible. Don't forget to let us know if you find any more great desktop downloads. If you find any incorrect links, please report it using our contact facility so we can keep the directory up to date. Thanks very much for your assistance.
Original Desktop Wallpaper Downloads
An interesting range of over one hundred desktop wallpaper downloads, featuring grungy styles, artistic and the unique. If you want to make an impression with your wallpaper, this is the place to go. Four popular screen resolution sizes are available.
Free RNLI Desktop Wallpaper
Find a varied selection of wallpaper images at the Royal National Lifeboats Institution (RNLI). The site includes backgrounds of lifeboats and also more fun wallpapers suitable for children. Available in a number of popular screen resolutions.
Microsoft Desktop Backgrounds
A high quality collection of desktop wallpaper, free for personal use. Categories here include: Animals, Art, Games, Holidays & Seasons, Nature, Places, Landscapes, and more. Highly recommended - there's some great imagery to be found.
Free Latter-Day Saints Wallpaper
Select from over fifty impressive wallpapers featuring a variety of scenes, including nature, sunsets, flowers, plus numerous LDS temples around the world. You may download each image as a smartphone, tablet or desktop wallpaper.
InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers
A superb selection of over 2500 free wallpaper images from all over the world. The site features wallpaper in numerous resolution sizes, including those for PC, mobile devices, iPad/iPhone, Blackberry, and dual monitors. Each image is accompanied with information from the artist, such as the camera used to photograph the shot, the location and associated comments.
Free Elvis Presley Desktop FreebiesAt the official Elvis Presley Web site, you'll find a selection of free wallpapers and screensavers to download, including those featuring scenes from "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii" and the "1968 Comeback Special". Other downloads available here include classic images of Elvis performing.
Desktop Earth
If you are bored with your computer wallpaper, check out this free download. Desktop Earth reproduces an accurate representation of the Earth (as seen from space) and uses this image as your wallpaper. You can set the updates to run at various time intervals to ensure your image is bang up-to-date. You are also able to see populated areas at night. Functions on Windows XP and possibly some older versions, too.
Free Space Imagery WallpapersSpruce up your computer desktop with these fascinating (and free) wallpaper images, all featuring various space-themed photography, courtesy of Space.com. There is some truly superb imagery available here and they provide wallpapers in a number of popular resolutions, including both standard and widescreen.
Angry Birds ThemeA great desktop enhancement freebie from Microsoft and based on the popular "Angry Birds" game seen on smartphones and other mobile devices. The download contains wallpaper, icons and a bunch of other goodies to add some excitement to your computer desktop. Please note: functions on all versions of Windows 7.
Forever Friends Desktop WallpapersAt the Forever Friends Web site, you'll find a high quality collection of cute free desktop wallpapers, suitable for both Windows and Mac operating systems. Aside from this, the site also includes some excellent screensavers, featuring scenes from birthdays, Magic Star and Halloween.
Free Hubble Space Telescope Desktop WallpapersAt freebielist.com we're big fans of HubbleSite's collection of free space-themed desktop wallpaper. Some of the most breathtaking imagery ever witnessed is available on this site, including detailed shots of galaxies, nebulae, planets, star fields and more. Be sure to check out the Sombrero Galaxy image!
Free Space and Nebula WallpapersThis round-up of freebie space and nebula wallpapers from Smashing Magazine is just the thing to jazz up your computer desktop. Alongside space-themed backgrounds, they also include a selection of "sky" imagery as well!
Free Lord’s Cricket Desktop WallpaperCricket fans will love this site, which allows you to spruce up your computer desktop with a variety of Lord's cricket-themed imagery. Featured are images from Test Matches, along with popular players.
Free Virtual Hebrides Computer WallpaperA fine selection of desktop wallpaper, featuring images from the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. They feature two popular resolution sizes: 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600 pixels.
Free Ordnance Survey Desktop WallpaperEvery month, Ordnance Survey offers a free desktop wallpaper image, featuring somewhere beautiful and scenic in Great Britain. New wallpaper files are usually available a week before the end of each month. Various screen resolution sizes are catered for.
Free National Geographic Desktop WallpapersA fine collection of free wallpaper images that are sure to liven up your computer desktop. Some of the imagery used here is breathtaking and there's plenty to choose from! Various resolution sizes are available.
Various Sun-related Desktop FreebiesHere you can get your hands on a variety of freebie desktop downloads, featuring imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (a project by the ESA and NASA to study the sun). Downloads are available for Windows, Max and Linux, and include screen savers, an image viewer, desktop wallpaper, etc.
Free Christmas Desktop WallpersBrighten up your computer desktop with this selection of festive Christmas wallpapers. Over 20 high quality wallpaper backgrounds can be downloaded here, completely free of charge. Many of the wallpapers are available in various screen resolutions, depending on your preference.
Free Doctor Who WallpaperFans of the new Doctor Who series will love these free desktop wallpaper backgrounds. You'll find images depicting scenes from the show, along with the many characters, and of course, the Doctor himself. 1024x768, 800x600 and widescreen resolutions are available. Mobile wallpaper (for your phone) can also be downloaded here.
Free Astronomy ScreensaverAt this site, you can download Robert Gregory Garfinkle's "Astronomy Screensaver". This fabulous freeware screensaver displays spellbinding images of the cosmos, all captured by NASA and numerous other space organisations. Install this program and marvel at the stars of The Pleiades, the rings of Saturn, nebulas and galaxies. Two versions are available: High Res and Low Res. Functions on Windows XP or higher.
Free Pleiades Star Cluster WallpaperAt the National Geographic site you can grab a wallpaper image of the beautiful star cluster known as the Pleiades (or "Seven Sisters"). "The cluster, located some 400 light-years away, formed about 100 million years ago. It contains thousands of stars but gets its name from seven of its brightest members". To download this inspiring image, follow the "Wallpaper" link below the preview picture, then select your screen resolution size to download.
Free Winamp SkinsThe popular audio player, Winamp, is possibly one of the most skinnable programs you'll find on the Internet. Here, you will find hundreds of skins to download free of charge. Their directory of downloadable skins is extensive and some of the categories include: abstract, anime, movies, retro, sports, music, etc. Designers can also submit their own skins for addition.
Wallpaper-Free.euThis site provides a selection of free wallpapers for use on your computer desktop. Wallpaper-Free.eu includes desktop wallpaper featuring scenes from locations, such as the Alps, Egypt, Budapest, Malaysia and Mallorca. You'll also find nature wallpapers, featuring plants and animals, and flight wallpapers, featuring images of aircraft and parachutists. All the wallpapers here are free for non-commercial use.
Digital Car WallpapersThis site serves up free desktop wallpapers featuring images of cars in two screen resolution sizes: 1024x768 and 800x600 pixels (currently the two most popular sizes). There are around 100 different wallpaper images here, including cars manufactured by Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche and Volkswagen. Digital Car Wallpapers is a regularly updated site with plenty of quality content.
Cool WallpaperAll kinds of quality free desktop wallpapers can be found here. CoolWallpaper.com features wallpaper in various categories, some of which include: celebrities, models, space themes, animations, cars, and much more. Along with this, the "Cool Wallpaper Software" you'll find here allows users to download and manage their images more effectively.