stretching wallpaper

[Morkai]

ok i hope this doesn't sound stupid - All i want to do is stretch wallpaper to fit my monitor. I work at 1280*1024 so most wallpaper is too small.

I have the G400 and have made sure the dual monitor is turned off. The setting should be on the effects tab of display properties but I can't find it anywhere.

Am I missing something incredibly obvious or is it just not possible anymore?

Thanks

Morkai

System:
Gigabyte GA-5AX (rev 4)mb (ALi Chipset)
K6-2 400Mhz
2x64meg sdram dimms(100Mhz)
G400 Millennium 32meg (not the max)
Sound Blaster Awe64 Gold
Realtek network card (isa)
Lucent chipset modem (pci)
Lucky Goldstar 24x cd-rom
and 2 quantum fireball 12.7gig hd's

o/s - Win 98

[Greebe]

You can use most any image editing software out to resize them.

[Morkai]

aye very true, but since i cycle my wallpaper fairly regulary i'd rather not have to edit and have double copies of all my graphics when it should be doable with a simple system setting - if its not possible then thats what i'll do but i'd rather try and exhaust other possibilities first

thanks anyhow

Morkai

[Spire]

You must have Active Desktop enabled to get the Stretch option to appear for your Wallpaper.

With Active Desktop disabled, you will get only the standard Tile and Center options.

[Morkai]

Ahh, thankye kindly - still not appeared on the effects tab where window's help says it should be but at least its on the backgrounds tab.

Morkai

[Himself]

Here is the deal, if you have IE 4 with Win95, Win98, etc, you can have stretched wallpaper (bmps anyway), without active desktop. It relys on a registry key called WallpaperStyle, under win9x and winnt, it is a string with the values "0", "1", and "2", under win2k rc1 it's a binary value, go figure. 0 means normal, 1 means tile, 2 means stretch. It supercedes the original TileWallpaper value which only takes "0" and "1". This is the full path to the key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WallpaperStyle"

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\TileWallpaper"

Another awkward situation brought to you by the fine folks at MS.

[Solo22]

I Have the Stretch option under the "background" tab...and I don't have "active desktop" on. So you should be able to se it there Morkai.
(I'm using Win98se, maybe it wasn't the same with Win98a)