[Deke40]

Save Image For Wallpaper


Open MSPaint and paste in the image from where you stored it.
Save it as a BMP file.
Put the new BMP into C:\Windows folder, and it will be available as a wallpaper in Display. You might have to change color settings. I set mine at 24 and it came out fine.

The advantage of doing it this way instead of right clicking image and saving as wallpaper is that it will be on the display menu permanently If you do a save as wallpaper it will go away when you change to another selection.

[flavallee]

Just a tip for some users. Highly graphic wallpaper will consume system resources and add to the loading time of Windows. If your computer is on the borderline, as far as RAM amount and processor speed and video memory, skip the wallpaper and just stick with a plain blue background. Also, keep the color palette down to a maximum of 16-bit high color and the resolution down to a maximum of 1024 X 768.

Frank's Windows 95/98 Tips

[Zachary]

what is the harm in using 32 bit colour?? is there a difference between 16 bit and 32 bit display modes??

Zach.

[flavallee]

"32-bit true color" puts more of a burden on your display adapter and uses more memory. Most people also will not see any difference between "32-bit true color" and "16-bit high color".

If you have a newer computer with a fast processor, plenty of RAM, and a display adapter with 32 - 64 MB of video memory, then it is not a problem. If your computer is old and is borderline, reducing the load on it is the key to maintaining decent performance.

Frank's Windows 95/98 Tips

[tc4hi]

I use a program called Webshots...www.webshots.com It has a photo manager that allows you to save any pics as wallpaper...you can also set it to change your wallpaper hourly,daily,or only when you tell it to...check it out.

[Deke40]

Flavallee

You are right about wallpapers. I run with a blue background. I got over my early yearnings for every wallpaper program out there. This was for special wallpapers, like grandkids, when they come over it is on the screen and they get a kick out of it. When they leave you revert back to the blue. Keeps everybody happy.

[flavallee]

Good!

[Fyzbo]

To the origianal post. You may want to try right clicking the wallpaper and clicking save as. They you can put it within the windows directory as a .jpg this will save hard drive space, and also reduce color lose from the image.

[Mosaic1]

If you are going to save it in its original form anyway, and then use Active Desktop to show it. Save it in
windows\web\wallpaper

It will now be listed with the other backgrounds in Display Properties.

However, if you do have a program like Irfanview, it can convert gifs and jpegs to bmps very well.

[flavallee]

Fyzbo:

I may be wrong, but I believe that wallpaper has to be saved in the C:\Windows folder in BMP format.

[Fyzbo]

I suppose it has to do with what version of windows you are running. I place the images in the winnt folder and they show up.