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Full screen wallpaper on Windows 98

How can make a bitmap or jpeg image fill the whole screen when I set it as wallpaper? I did it once but I've forgotten how to do it. (I don't mean by tiling the picture, I mean stretching it to fill the screen)

Patricia Siu-Lai Ho

To binic,it is a fun to pick-up picture from internet.When seeing a picture that you like while browsing. Just use mouse and point on it -hold and click a menu pop-up. You can save as wallpaper. Then Go to start-setting-control panal-display-background- selecting the internet wallpaper bmp-select stretch.
Then Ok -exit. Or you can edit and add yr own drawings. Hope to be helpful Pslh

jcarlo

You can use Paint. Any other graphics program will work, and probably be better, but I know you have this one. First change the image size to 800x600. A white border will appear around your picture, so you can scale the image by an appropriate factor using Stretch/Skew (note that you can only do one axis at a time). If you need help with doing this, please let us know, and if the results are unsatisfactory, we will have to find a better solution. Oh, and to calculate the scaling factors:

For horizontal:
Let x be the current width in pixels. Let Sx be the horizontal scaling factor (to enter in paint).
Sx = 800/x

for vertical: y is current width, Sy is scaling factor in y
Sy = 600/y

you will have to do these on a calculator, and enter the results in Paint.

Good Luck,
Jeremy

MasseyM

Right click on desktop, choose properties, choose the graphic. In the bottom right corner choose stretch. if there is not a drop-down box, make sure you have more than 256 colors being displayed. You can check this by choosing the settings tab at the top of that screen.

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jcarlo

Is there an echo in here?

MasseyM

no joke! What is up ho_yin ? Did you just cut and paste :)

jcarlo

binic:

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Jeremy