desktop wallpaper help...

[Arch]

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]

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

 

[Arch]

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!

 

[Desert Orchid]

right click anywhere on your desktop wallpaper (the smiley stretched nephew)

i.e left click on the show desktop icon then right click the desktop

 

[Arch]

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...