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Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:21 pm
by expat
I have a new lappy with Window 7 and I have a small desktop problem. I have a picture on my other Vista lappy that I transferred over. I set the picture to the same setting that I had on the other lappy, but with Windows 7 it is not quite working. On Vista I had the picture centered with a black desktop background colour. The picture then appeared to have a three inch black boarder. With W7, no matter what I do the picture zooms to full screen even though I have centered selected. The picture is around 250kb and the zoom effect is ripping it up. Any one got any ideas??

Thanks

Matt

Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:13 am
by patchz
Try choosing black for your background. Then open the picture in an editor and change the canvass size to your screen size, with black background. But jic, save it under a different name, keeping the original.

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Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:26 am
by expat
That is exactly what I had done, but no matter how I resized the picture, it is still zooming :-/

Matt

Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:52 pm
by patchz
That's weird. Sorry, I can't think of anything else right now, but I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out.

Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:47 pm
by Capt.Propwash
Wouldn't the black background have to be the size of the screen.. and the actual picture be smaller so the boarder shows around it ???

have you tried that?

Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:35 pm
by Cpt. D. Striker Metcalf
You have to change your screen resolution, right click on your desk top and go to screen resolution and try raising or lowering the resolution and that still might not work, then try re-sizing the pic to 1024X768 and raising your screen resolution to something bigger and then the pic should sit in the center..... 

Re: Windows 7 desktop

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:03 pm
by expat
[quote]You have to change your screen resolution, right click on your desk top and go to screen resolution and try raising or lowering the resolution and that still might not work, then try re-sizing the pic to 1024X768 and raising your screen resolution to something bigger and then the pic should sit in the center.....