Display-Wallpaper

[Joy]

I've never had this problem before but today I "lost" my
wallpaper photo on the monitor. I've tried several times
to Brouse, click on a JPG reduced photo from Photoshop,
click Apply and OK. I can see it on the Desktop Display
in the Control Panel but it won't load to my desktop...and
I've tried several photos, including one that has been on
the desktop for several weeks, now. I've selected None
and retried, even turned the computer off and rebooted.
Any suggestions?

[pjp]

Need Active Desktop enabled to use jpg images for backgrounds. Better choice
is to save the jpg image as a bmp image instead and then use this bmp image
for the background as Active Desktop is then not required. Also helps to
resize the bmp file to the same dimension you normally run your display at
(e.g. 1280x1024 or whatever) as then no scaling is required to have the
image fill the screen.

"Joy" > wrote in message
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> I've never had this problem before but today I "lost" my
> wallpaper photo on the monitor. I've tried several times
> to Brouse, click on a JPG reduced photo from Photoshop,
> click Apply and OK. I can see it on the Desktop Display
> in the Control Panel but it won't load to my desktop...and
> I've tried several photos, including one that has been on
> the desktop for several weeks, now. I've selected None
> and retried, even turned the computer off and rebooted.
> Any suggestions?

[Joy]

>-----Original Message-----
>Need Active Desktop enabled to use jpg images for
backgrounds. Better choice
>is to save the jpg image as a bmp image instead and then
use this bmp image
>for the background as Active Desktop is then not
required. Also helps to
>resize the bmp file to the same dimension you normally
run your display at
>(e.g. 1280x1024 or whatever) as then no scaling is
required to have the
>image fill the screen.
>

>
>Ok, I've right-clicked on the desktop and it's Active for
the Web. It won't load. So I took the check off and
tried it... still won't load. Then I saved a Copy in
Bitmap, even Saved As in Bitmap, and neither worked.
It'll load one of the Microsoft wallpapers but not any of
my photos.
>.
>

[Joy]

>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Need Active Desktop enabled to use jpg images for
>backgrounds. Better choice
>>is to save the jpg image as a bmp image instead and then
>use this bmp image
>>for the background as Active Desktop is then not
>required. Also helps to
>>resize the bmp file to the same dimension you normally
>run your display at
>>(e.g. 1280x1024 or whatever) as then no scaling is
>required to have the
>>image fill the screen.
>>
>
>>
>>Ok, I've right-clicked on the desktop and it's Active
for
>the Web. It won't load. So I took the check off and
>tried it... still won't load. Then I saved a Copy in
>Bitmap, even Saved As in Bitmap, and neither worked.
>It'll load one of the Microsoft wallpapers but not any of
>my photos.
>>.
>>I've solved the problem! I suspect that the problem was
in the format, or whatever, from my digital camera's Photo
Software not being fully compatable with my computer. I
pulled the desired photo up, and resaved it by itself, not
into the original folder in my Photoshop. Its now on my
desktop, and I feel like a Geek again! Thanks, Pip, for
your suggestion, which tho it didn't solve the problem,
it gave me a better understanding of the nature of the
Active Desktop / wallpaper process.
>.
>