Topic: Post yer desktop (Read 33503 times)

The_FOO · « **Reply #50 on:** July 28, 2004, 07:13:48 AM »

I've never been a big fan of desktop pics for some reason. I think I have a solid blue one ATM.

I'll have to poke around and find a nice fantasy scene or some such and post it.

Min · « **Reply #51 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:17:41 AM »

I was gonna make a joke about how mine's a nice fantasy scene....but that would be just weird.

It's the same as last time.

The_FOO · « **Reply #52 on:** July 28, 2004, 10:28:43 AM »

Hamilton is on the $10 isn't he?

Min · « **Reply #53 on:** July 28, 2004, 10:56:04 AM »

Um, yes. That's a picture of a ten dollar bill.

The_FOO · « **Reply #54 on:** July 28, 2004, 12:02:22 PM »

Yay me... I know who is on the US $10, but haven't got a clue who is on our $10. Or Anything but the $1 and $2 coins for that matter.

I shall have to correct this problem at some point.

Min · « **Reply #55 on:** July 28, 2004, 12:04:11 PM »

Oh right. Sorry, I forgot that you're not from Regular North America.

The_FOO · « **Reply #56 on:** July 28, 2004, 12:09:16 PM »

Quote from: Detta

Oh right. Sorry, I forgot that you're not from Regular North America.

Yep, I'm in Soviet Canuckistan!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #57 on:** July 28, 2004, 12:13:18 PM »

Good heavens. What the hell language do they speak THERE?

The_FOO · « **Reply #58 on:** July 28, 2004, 02:11:40 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Good heavens. What the hell language do they speak THERE?

The Queen's English, eh?

hackess · « **Reply #59 on:** July 28, 2004, 02:12:47 PM »

Which Queen?

The_FOO · « **Reply #60 on:** July 28, 2004, 02:33:09 PM »

Quote from: catwritr

Which Queen?

Depends on how old you are. If you're old old, then it's The Queen Mother, if you're old then it's The Queen, and if you're not old then take off hoser.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #61 on:** July 28, 2004, 06:53:59 PM »

Quote from: catwritr

Which Queen?

I hear the Lizard Queen has her own dialect!

Law · « **Reply #62 on:** July 28, 2004, 07:14:01 PM »

Yeah, mine's the same. I'm pondering what the next one will be...

The_FOO · « **Reply #63 on:** July 28, 2004, 07:31:36 PM »

Ooo It's a verah nice Law.

hackess · « **Reply #64 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:00:57 PM »

Quote from: Law

I'm pondering what the next one will be...

Thinkin' real hard about that one, eh?

The_FOO · « **Reply #65 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:04:34 PM »

*blinks* For some reason I can't choose any images for backgrounds apart from the Windows default ones.

XP allows me to choose the image, but once I've selected it, nothing happens.

Any ideas?

hackess · « **Reply #66 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:06:18 PM »

You are hitting "Apply," right?

And have Active Desktop turned on?

The_FOO · « **Reply #67 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:23:02 PM »

It's giving me the choice of "Open" when I select the jpg I want. And I didn't think XP had Active Desktop?

hackess · « **Reply #68 on:** July 28, 2004, 08:31:11 PM »

Yes, now click Open, and then hit Apply.

The_FOO · « **Reply #69 on:** July 28, 2004, 09:17:06 PM »

Nope, nadda, nyet, nein, etc...

I shall reboot in a bit and see what that does.

phyre · « **Reply #70 on:** July 28, 2004, 11:33:47 PM »

Quote from: The_FOO

It's giving me the choice of "Open" when I select the jpg I want. And I didn't think XP had Active Desktop?

It's got it, but it's built in. You don't have to enable it, and you can't disable it.

When you go to Display Properties/Desktop, you click "Browse...", right? then you select the .jpg you want, hit "open", and it does what? Nothing? Appears in the tiny monitor in the dialog? BTW, the default Position is "Stretch", be sure to change that if you need to.

Assuming it's doing nothing, you're in trouble- reboot, and if that doesn't fix it, start doing some troubleshooting- see if there are any other problems, and list possible causes, etc. However, what it's supposed to do is put the image in the little monitor, all stretched to fit and crap. once it's done that, you just hit "OK" or "Apply", and it should be on the monitor. If that's not happening, then you've got other problems.

Questions to ask, how many different .jpgs have you tried to apply, how many times have you done this to no avail, how long have you had the computer/how long since last reinstall, is the computer up to specs, are there any other issues that could be related (i.e. image handling, memory problems, system slowdown, possible viruses)?

Let us know where you're at.

The_FOO · « **Reply #71 on:** July 29, 2004, 08:47:54 AM »

Quote from: phyre

It's got it, but it's built in. You don't have to enable it, and you can't disable it.

Ahhh that would explain it. I always used to turn it off before, and have never seen an option to do so under XP, so I assumed MS had gotten rid of the horrid POS.

Quote from: phyre

When you go to Display Properties/Desktop, you click "Browse...", right? then you select the .jpg you want, hit "open", and it does what? Nothing? Appears in the tiny monitor in the dialog? BTW, the default Position is "Stretch", be sure to change that if you need to.

Yeah, it does nothing on any .jpg I've tried. Some .bmps work, but others don't. PNG, GIF don't seem to work either.

Quote from: phyre

Assuming it's doing nothing, you're in trouble- reboot, and if that doesn't fix it, start doing some troubleshooting- see if there are any other problems, and list possible causes, etc. However, what it's supposed to do is put the image in the little monitor, all stretched to fit and crap. once it's done that, you just hit "OK" or "Apply", and it should be on the monitor. If that's not happening, then you've got other problems.

Yeah, the thumbnail doesn't show up on the monitor at all when I select most images. I converted a JPG to 24 bit BMP and was able to then apply that as a desktop image. But not all the other BMPs I have will apply. I haven't bothered checking to see if they're 24 bit or not though.

Quote from: phyre

Questions to ask, how many different .jpgs have you tried to apply, how many times have you done this to no avail, how long have you had the computer/how long since last reinstall, is the computer up to specs, are there any other issues that could be related (i.e. image handling, memory problems, system slowdown, possible viruses)?

I just reinstalled last week or so. So it's a pretty fresh system. Norton AV is up to date, Just ran Adaware on it a few days ago too. I did recently install ACDSEE 6 But I had that installed on my comp before the format and I didn't have any problems with setting background images. I'm quite confused by it. It's almost as if the desktop has been locked by the domain admin, but I'm not on a domain at home.

Quote from: phyre

Let us know where you're at.

Right now I've managed to get an image applied. But it's still not working as it should be. *shrugs*

hackess · « **Reply #72 on:** July 29, 2004, 08:51:41 AM »

Whaddya mean it's not working as it should be? Looks fine to me.

I'm confused.

The_FOO · « **Reply #73 on:** July 29, 2004, 09:14:37 AM »

Quote from: catwritr

Whaddya mean it's not working as it should be? Looks fine to me.

I'm confused.

Well, in order to set the pic as my desktop, I can to first convert it to a 24 bit BMP. I couldn't just click on the jpg itself. Thus it's pooched still in some way. I've just managed to h4xx0r my way around it.

phyre · « **Reply #74 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:37:18 AM »

If the reinstall was that recent, you should probably just go back and do it again. Once you've reinstalled, apply a .jpg as your background, then take it off- install a piece of software, then apply a .jpg again. Repeat as needed until you find whatever piece of software is causing the problem.

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