How to Adjust the Windows Background

HOW TO ADJUST THE WINDOWS BACKGROUND

The Microsoft Windows background can be adjusted by opening the background display properties. To do this, follow the below steps.

METHOD 1

1.      Open control Panel.

2.      Open Display properties in the Control Panel.

3.      Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 users click the Background ‘tab, Windows XP users click the Desktop tap. 

By default, Microsoft Windows will have a listing of default Windows backgrounds, so click on any background of your choice, click on apply then Click Ok. If you wish to change the background to a different picture, such as a family picture, click the browse button and browse to the directory (folder) of the picture.

METHOD 2

1.      Right-click on an empty space on the desktop (blank area)

2.      Click on Properties

3.      Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 users click the Background ‘tab, Windows XP users click the Desktop tap. 

4.      From the listing of default windows background, click any background of your choice

5.      Click on Apply then Click Ok

NOTE: Microsoft Windows 95 users only have the ability to set the background as. BMP images; therefore, if you have a different format of image you will need to convert to it .BMP image before setting it as the background. All other Windows users should be able to set a .BMP, JPG. Or. GIF image as their background.

HOW DO I HAVE NO BACKGROUND IMAGE?

Within the listing of the available backgrounds, the first background is none; selecting none will disable any background image of your computer. It is important to realize that when you change the background to none, your background will use the color of your background or desktop.

Windows XP users can change this color from the same window as where they change their desktop. All other users will need to change their color of their desktop through the Appearance tap.

HOW DO I MAKE AN SMALL IMAGE TILED ACROSS THE BACKGROUND?

Within the desktop or background properties window, a user will be able to customize the layout of their image by selecting Center, Tile, or Stretch. Below is a brief explanation of each of these settings.

·        Center – This will center the image in the middle of the desktop. Doing this enables the user to only have one image set as background instead of having the image tiled. If the image is smaller than your computer resolution then you may have a small border around the image.

·        Tile – Tiling an image will take a smaller Image and multiply it multiple times across the desktop.

·        Stretch – Stretching an image will take a single image and stretch it to the full size. The smaller the image is the more distortion you will notice when stretching an image.

WHY AM I UNABLE TO SEE MY BACKGROUND?

 This issue is often caused if the image used as the background has been deleted or the computer has active desktop enabled on the computer.

1.     Verify the image being used as the background is still available on the computer and can be viewed.

2.     Disable Active Desktop.

BACKGROUND

1.     When referring to multitasking operating systems a background is an active program currently running but not seen on the computer. For example, a user may open a CD or MP3 player and then minimize it work on something else while still being able to listen to his or her music.

2.     Background is also used to describe Window computer wallpaper.

  

WALLPAPER

A graphic image that appears as a backdrop of the GUI desktop. As seen in our below example of a Microsoft Window 95 desktop, the wallpaper is a picture of clouds, which is the default wallpaper included with Microsoft Windows 95. 

All versions of Microsoft Windows include a feature that enables a user to set his or her own wallpaper. Microsoft Windows 95n, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP..