Tip #1074 - Change your desktop
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Q:
Help! I've been staring at the same boring Windows XP desktop image
for months. How can I change it?
A:
It's really not that hard at all...
The fastest and easiest way I've found is to right-click on your desktop and
select Properties . From the resulting window, choose the Display tab.
Scroll through the list of images the Windows XP people kindly provided and
preview them in the top of the window.
Feel free to change the "Position" from Stretch (one big picture) to Tile
(many little pictures) to Center (one small picture centered a hand picked
color filling in the background).
Now, if you want to use a picture that you have scanned in and saved on your
computer, simply click the Browse button and an "Open" window will appear.
It will default to your My Documents/My Pictures folder, but you can browse
through other folders via the Look in: box at the top.
Once you have found the picture you want, click on it and then click the Open
button. This will take you back to the Display Properties window and you should
see a neat-o preview of your new desktop. When you have things looking just
like you want them, click Apply and presto-o-change-o, you have a new desktop!
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