**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.

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.
>

I personally would use photoshop to resize the photo to my screen
resolution size and 72 dpi.

But there are a ton of editing programs that can resize images.
Even http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm is freeware and may
suit you.

Look for photo editor, resizer, etc in google.
Sometimes if you bought a digital camera, they also come with same basic
tools to do this.

Right click the desktop, properties, Desktop tab, position box: stretch

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"chuck" <chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:54EC983A-60BC-4EF9-8233-9A7E53EDE608@microsoft.com...
> **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.
>

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.
>

"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.