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Two displays - how about two wallpapers?

I got tired of seeing my wallpaper on my second monitor all skewed on my 1024 wide by 1280 tall vertical secondary display so I decided to do a little research and see if anyone had a good way to put a different wallpaper on each display.  I think I hit gold!

Customize your XP desktop by going to your display properties (control panel or right-click your desktop and select properties).  Select the Desktop tab and click on the Customize Desktop... button.  Select the Web tab and add the images you want on your desktop.  Hit OK and get out of the properties boxes. 

On your desktop, you should have the images you selected.  You can drag these around (including a second desktop), resize them, do whatever you need...  When you're done, you can go back and lock the desktop items from the Web tab you added the images on.

I am a laptop user and drag my laptop around with me all day so I'm constantly turning off my secondary monitor and hooking my laptop up to an analog projector with different display settings than my digital external on my desk...  My point being, the solution I found needs to handle a lot of display switching to work well for me.  I've found that it's not perfect but it works quite well.  I don't lock my desktop items so that I can easily slide the images around when my display gets messed up but I've been pretty happy with this solution.

Posted: Jul 26 2007, 09:35 AM by Adonis | with 3 comment(s)
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Eric A. Duncan said:

Actually you don't have to use this method, and I prefer not to because of the extra ram and CPU utilization to have an image in the background (been a known performance issue for yeras).

Instead what you want to do is create a background the size you want it.  What you saw at Telligent that I had was a background of 3200x1200 for my dual 1600x1200 monitors.

Once you have your large image, simply set it as your background.  But you want to select "Center" as the alignment, and it should align up properly.

Too bad this doesn't work for Vista any longer.  :(  Still trying to find a better way then using Web Images on the desktop.

# August 1, 2007 11:27 AM

neZ said:

Hn... Win XP 64 doesn't seem to have the "web" option in its display settings. Any alternatives besides shopping a large image?

# May 21, 2008 12:20 AM

createmo said:

Thank you for your site :)

I made on photoshop backgrounds for youtube, myspace and more

my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6ptkxd

take care and thank you again!

# November 2, 2008 8:55 AM
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