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Arch

Married to Night Train
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Salford, UK
I'm trying to change the wallpaper on my computer (windows XP), and the photo I want to use is portrait, not landscape. I assumed it would just put a black or blue border down each side to fit, but there doesn't seem to be that option - it wants to stretch it but that makes it look all wrong. What do I do? Do I have to alter the phot and add a border myself, and if so, how do I do that?
 

Desert Orchid

Senior Member
Right click desktop and go to properties,
then desktop and under position choose centre.
 
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Arch

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Desert Orchid said:
Right click desktop and go to properties,
then desktop and under position choose centre.

ok... (you mean the desktop shortcut icon? Sorry, I can be a bit dense about computer terms...)

I'll go home, give it a go and report back. I have a very smiley pic of my nephew I want to use, and he looks very odd stretched!
 
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Arch

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Cheers. Sorted now. I realised when I got home that I had partly misrepresented the problem - when I selected center (centre, god dammit!) it centered on the pic, but way too big. So after a fair bit of mucking about, I resized the pic and seem to have it right now. The hint about right clicking on the desktop was handy though, I'd been going Start, Settings, etc...

There's nothing like a toothless baby grin to set you up for the day...
 
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