Introducing Desktop Wallpapers:
Desktop wallpapers are images you can display on the background of your Windows desktop. There are a lot of free desktop wallpapers available on the Internet, or you can create your own.
Desktop wallpapers are images you can display on the background of your Windows desktop. There are a lot of free desktop wallpapers available on the Internet, or you can create your own.
Desktop Wallpaper Formats:
In order for the image to fill the entire desktop background, desktop wallpapers are usually the same resolution as the monitor's display resolution. Common resolutions are 1024×768 pixels and 1280×1024 pixels, but wallpapers for widescreen monitors and dual monitor setups are also available. Desktop wallpapers are often PNG or JPEG type graphics files.
In order for the image to fill the entire desktop background, desktop wallpapers are usually the same resolution as the monitor's display resolution. Common resolutions are 1024×768 pixels and 1280×1024 pixels, but wallpapers for widescreen monitors and dual monitor setups are also available. Desktop wallpapers are often PNG or JPEG type graphics files.
Finding Free Desktop Wallpapers:
There are a lot of free desktop wallpapers available on the Internet. Simply type "desktop wallpaper" into any search engine (About, Google, Yahoo, or Windows Live Search), and you'll find more wallpapers than you could ever need. To narrow down your results, try searching for the specific kind of wallpaper you would like (for example, "nature desktop wallpaper".
There are a lot of free desktop wallpapers available on the Internet. Simply type "desktop wallpaper" into any search engine (About, Google, Yahoo, or Windows Live Search), and you'll find more wallpapers than you could ever need. To narrow down your results, try searching for the specific kind of wallpaper you would like (for example, "nature desktop wallpaper".
Using Desktop Wallpapers:
The easiest way to use a desktop wallpaper depends on where the image is located:
The easiest way to use a desktop wallpaper depends on where the image is located:
Creating Desktop Wallpapers:
You can create your own desktop wallpaper, whether you want to create a repeating pattern or an image that will fill the entire desktop.
You can create your own desktop wallpaper, whether you want to create a repeating pattern or an image that will fill the entire desktop.
- Make a Seamless Tile - follow these instructions to create a pattern that you can repeat as your desktop background
- Use a picture - if you want the picture to fill the desktop, you'll have to crop or resize it to match your monitor's resolution. You can easily center any picture on your desktop.
Dynamic Desktop Backgrounds: In addition to static images, you can also use Web pages as your desktop background in Windows 98 and higher. Windows Vista Ultimate users can set optimized videos and animations as their desktop background via DreamScene, an Ultimate extra.