Good wallpapers can bring us a good mood for work. The following article will tell you some classic wallpaper setting techniques.
1. Is it better to use BMP or JPEG format for wallpaper?
In Windows 9x, if the wallpaper format used is not in BMP format but in JPEG format, the desktop attributes must be turned on to enable web support to successfully see the wallpaper effect; in Windows XP, the system can automatically process any image format. The author’s suggestion is: when physical memory is large, use BMP format pictures, because the JPEG format requires the built-in conversion support function of Windows XP, which will increase the system startup time; and when physical memory is small, use JPEG format pictures as background, because the same file uses JPEG format to be much smaller in size than using BMP format.
2. Pay attention to the path of the wallpaper
When you see beautiful pictures while surfing the Internet, you can set it as a wallpaper directly with IE6.0 built in Windows XP. However, it is recommended that you save the image first and then set it as a wallpaper, because before saving the file, IE places the image in the temporary file buffer. If the IE temporary data is cleared in the future, there will be nowhere to look for this image. In addition, some friends directly set the picture on the CD as a wallpaper when browsing the picture. At this time, the path to the wallpaper picture is the optical drive. When the CD is taken out, the wallpaper will also disappear.
3. Which is better, stretching, tiling or centering?
Stretch, tiling and centering are three forms of wallpaper display. Stretching is to adapt the picture to the screen resolution, regardless of the original size; tiling is to use the original size of the picture, and it is not automatically adjusted with the resolution, so some large pictures can only display a part of the upper left corner at a resolution of 800×600; and centering is to use the original size of the picture, but ensure that the middle part of the picture is highlighted, so at this time, some large pictures are missing. It is recommended that friends make choices according to their needs.
4. Tips for viewing viruses from wallpapers
Pay attention to your wallpaper and may also find clues about worms such as "Happy Hour". This virus can infect files with the suffix of ".HIM, .VBS, .HTA, .ASP, .HTML" on the hard disk and send poisoned mails according to the email address in the address book. Since it can use Windows' desktop web capabilities to infect web files, it may change your wallpaper settings. If you don't load the desktop theme tool with a restricted date and find that the wallpaper has inexplicably turned blank or some monochrome background, then be careful. It is likely that this type of worm is causing trouble, so check the virus quickly.