Questions about how MS Wallpaper Changer Power Toy displays images

[All Things Mopar]

Hi, All!

I really like Microsoft's Wallpaper Changer Power Toy
for Windows XP, except for an annoyance I can't find a
fix for. Can someone help?

My Windows screen resolution is set to 1280 x 960. Some
of the pictures in my wallpaper folder are 1280 x 960,
quite a number are 1024 x 748, and some are 800 x 600.

Wallpaper Changer always uses the "stretch" feature and
makes all images full-screen, which makes the smaller
ones look very poor - pixelated, etc. as you'd expect.

When I go to Settings>Control Panel>Display>Desktop,
Wallpaper Changer shows up in my wallpaper list as
"toyhide", with the Position pull-down list set to
"Stretch". Even if I change this to "Center" and click
on Apply, it does not work. My automatically changing
wallpaper is /still/ "stretched".

I looked in Configure Wallpaper by right-clicking on its
icon in my sys tray, but failed to see anything at all
about how images are displayed.

Am I missing something obvious here? Can I change it? I
looked at MS's site and I appear to have the latest
(only?) version.

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[Guest]

I recommend you to use http://www.webshots.com, there are quite fine pictures
to download to

 

[Guest]

You can resize the photos before making them your wallpaper.
After selecting your background, click Apply and OK to set and save settings.

 

[All Things Mopar]

=?Utf-8?B?Tmljb2xpYW5pIOKEog==?= commented
courteously...

I recommend you to use http://www.webshots.com, there are
quite fine pictures to download to

Hi. Someone else recommended this same program, but I
cannot find it on this site. All I see is links to
pictures.

Could you possibly give me a hint or a link to the D/L
where the screen saver and wallpaper changer are found?

Thanks, Muchly!

 

[All Things Mopar]

=?Utf-8?B?Qnl0ZQ==?= commented courteously...

You can resize the photos before making them
your wallpaper. After selecting your background,
click Apply and OK to set and save settings.

Sorry for being dense but I don't understand what you're
saying at all. The images are already the size I want
them, from 800 x 600 to 1280 x 960.

Where in MS's Wallpaper Changer Power Toy and/or Control
Panel>Display would I tell it to "resize" these images?
The only thing I've ever seen is Display's "Center" vs.
"Stretch", but I can't get "Center" to work with WPC.

Thanks, again.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Try the link at the very top of the page.

=?Utf-8?B?Tmljb2xpYW5pIOKEog==?= commented
courteously...


Hi. Someone else recommended this same program, but I
cannot find it on this site. All I see is links to
pictures.

Could you possibly give me a hint or a link to the D/L
where the screen saver and wallpaper changer are found?

Thanks, Muchly!

 

[All Things Mopar]

Richard in AZ commented courteously...

Try the link at the very top of the page.

I see it now, Richard. Thanks.