"chuck" <chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DF00063A-DDF1-4636-8831-D9E44EC9708C@microsoft.com...
> thanks for the help guys. i should have known it was something simple. lol!
> i'll try that program too and see how it works.
>
> "chuck" wrote:
>
>> **i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also. sorry.**
>> i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop
>> background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one picture
>> rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this make
>> sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but i
>> cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

Right Click the desktop > properties > desktop tab > browse > pick one, it
will come up as a proper wallpaper.