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Little Nuance in 98se Desktop


triger49

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No doubt, some of the Pro's around here have known about this

since Moby Dick was a minnow. But it caught me be surprise.

As a rule of thumb, if I find a wallpaper I like and the original

size is bigger than my desktop, fire up Irfanview, resize it and save

as a .bmp file in my Windows directory.

Today, I find this gorgeous landscape with the download as a .bmp

file. 1280 x 1024. Dump in Windows directory, look at desktop properties

which is set to "stretch". The whole picture is viewable. Set it to "center"

and the edges of the picture go off screeen in 1024 x 768. Reset to "Stretch"

and the whole picture again is viewable. Almost a contradiction in

terms. How I could be running the same OS for over 10 years and never

noticed is remarkable....

Jake

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No doubt, some of the Pro's around here have known about this

since Moby Dick was a minnow. But it caught me be surprise.

As a rule of thumb, if I find a wallpaper I like and the original

size is bigger than my desktop, fire up Irfanview, resize it and save

as a .bmp file in my Windows directory.

Today, I find this gorgeous landscape with the download as a .bmp

file. 1280 x 1024. Dump in Windows directory, look at desktop properties

which is set to "stretch". The whole picture is viewable. Set it to "center"

and the edges of the picture go off screeen in 1024 x 768. Reset to "Stretch"

and the whole picture again is viewable. Almost a contradiction in

terms. How I could be running the same OS for over 10 years and never

noticed is remarkable....

Jake

Actually "Stretch" is an inaccurate term. It was sort of OK when most pictures were smaller than the Screen Size and needed to be "Stretched" to fill the screen. A more accurate term would have been "Fit To Screen".

You probably didn't notice because you were adjusting the size of your images before using them.

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Yeah, in the old time doing a picture larger than 640/480 was considered a big waste of HDD space and extremely long to process while editing. :D

Yes, boy do I remember that . A 486/ 66mhz with 8 meg ram and Win95a.

The 520 meg hard drive seemed huge till Office 95 and IE4.0 came along,

then things started getting crowded real fast.

Jake

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Yes, boy do I remember that . A 486/ 66mhz with 8 meg ram and Win95a.

The 520 meg hard drive seemed huge till Office 95 and IE4.0 came along,

then things started getting crowded real fast.

Jake

Well, it lead me to remember my old ages when I first instaled Win95a on my 386DX-33Mhz w/ 4M RAM & 340M HDD too.

Ken

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