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how can u change a wall paper? Thread last updated on 2004-08-29 03:57:59

Posted by member 194738 on 2004-08-22 15:46:33

does anyone know how to change your wall paper?

Posted by member 103254 on 2004-08-22 15:53:19 link

like in the default shell...

Posted by member 194738 on 2004-08-22 16:38:34 link

sure, does it have to be a specific shell?

Posted by member 820 on 2004-08-22 16:43:29 link

The second comment you made there makes no sense, so I will just try to reiterate what funkyd00d said.

The wallpaper has nothing to do with the explorer shell, so you set it by getting to display properties like you would normally, or you can just open an image and set it to the background as well.

Hope that helps a lil.

Posted by member 12025 on 2004-08-22 17:36:00 link

Correction, LP: the wallpaper has nothing to do with the explorer shell if it is a .bmp. If it is a JPG or other, you need explorer w/ active desktop enabled.
However, conversion to BMP is rather painless.

Posted by member 194738 on 2004-08-22 20:07:30 link

uh, thx. ill try using the display propertys. but whats a bmp?

Posted by member 12025 on 2004-08-22 21:03:16 link

OK, just in case you're in ignorant user bliss, open explorer, go to tools->folder options, then the view tab.
Uncheck "Hide file extensions for known file types", and click OK.

Anyway, a BMP (*.bmp) is a Windows or OS/2 bitmap image file. Uncompressed and big. JPEGs (*.jpg) are compressed, smaller, and used for most web stuff where lossy compression works well (like wallpapers). Using an image converter/viewer/editor/whatever, you can make a BMP from a JPG. It will be big, but will work without active desktop enabled. Now I don't know about XP, but Win98SE and Win2k both have exhibited the behavior of ignoring JPG files as wallpaper images when using LS.

Posted by member 103254 on 2004-08-23 10:33:22 link

I never had trouble using jpgs as wallpapers w/ LS, using xp home. And, uh kuyo, if you're such a newbie to computers that you don't know the difference between a jpeg and a bmp, and that you dont know what a file extension is, I honestly don't think you should use litestep =\

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-08-24 13:34:13 link

actually, the bmp requirement is only true for pre-xp machines. with xp, you can use any of the normal image types as a wallpaper.

Posted by member 84280 on 2004-08-25 09:24:53 link

just get irfanview, then open an image and go to view>set as wallpaper>streched >.>

Posted by member 48370 on 2004-08-26 02:41:48 link

or just press ctrl+shift+s :D

Posted by member 193748 on 2004-08-29 00:44:03 link

First off
LEARN URSELF SOME COMPUTER LINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Second...
If u guys are gonna act like u kno it all then please MAKE SURE U KNO IT ALL!!!!!!
it makes it very confoosing for n00bs
i kno cause i used to b one just like every one here
unless they were born with some insane knowlege about computers

Posted by member 45783 on 2004-08-29 03:57:58 link

I think clueless users exist parly because the OS tries to hide much more of the computer than it did on the past. You do not have to know anything about wallpapers, just right-click on the net + set as a wallpaper. You do not have to know about file extensions. You do not have to know about anything.

In this situation, ow can you blame someone for being ignorant about something he does not have to know?