TAURED WORLD PROJECT

  

Remember the little creatures and characters that used to walk across computer screens in the 2000s? Taured Desk brings that idea back — but now, you decide what appears.

Just place any PNG image in a folder and you’re ready to go: your logo, your team’s crest, your country’s flag, a photo of your dog, or a character you created. It comes to life on your desktop, moving above the taskbar while you work.

And you control everything. The mascot can walk from side to side, move up and down like a rocket, roam freely across the entire screen, or simply stay wherever you place it. It can be large or discreet, fast or slow, remain on top of every window, or stay hidden behind them. It can alternate between several images every few minutes — or, if you have a sequence of frames, animate them at up to 24 frames per second and create your own cartoon.

Do you have two monitors? It can move from one to the other. Would you rather keep it on just one screen? You can do that too.

It is completely free, requires no installation, and does not ask you to create an account. It is a single file that you can open and close whenever you like.


 

Feature Highlights

Use any image you like — simply drop PNG files into the folder
Four movement modes — horizontal, vertical, random, or stationary
Frame-by-frame animation — from 2 to 24 frames per second
Multiple monitors — moves across all screens or stays on just one
Adjustable size and speed — change them anytime from the menu
In front of or behind windows — you decide
Five languages — Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Italian
No installation required — one file, open it and it runs
Free — a gift from the Taured Project


 

Taured was developed with the help of artificial intelligence. When opening the program for the first time, Windows may display a blue screen saying "Windows protected your PC." Click "More info" and then "Run anyway."

This happens because the Taured Desk program does not have a digital code signature. A signature is a paid certificate issued by certifying authorities that allows Windows to identify the file's publisher.
Since this is a free, non-commercial offering, it lacks this certificate—so Windows classifies it as coming from an "unknown publisher." Your antivirus software may also display an alert for the same reason.

The warning refers to the absence of the certificate, not to anything detected within the program itself.