General Chat

A very fetching shot of my dear, departed doggie, lying on our old blue sofa. CB >|<

1. Click on START. 2. Click on CONTROL PANEL. (On some PC's you may have to click on FIND and then CONTROL PANEL or click on MY COMPUTER and then CONTROL PANEL.) 3. From the list, click on DISPLAY. (For those of you using Windows XP who don’t have a list displaying, at this point, look to the left of your screen and click on SWITCH TO CLASSIC VIEW – you should now see the list that I am talking about now – click on DISPLAY.) 4. A box appears with labeled tabs – click on the DESKTOP tab. The box appearing now has a picture of a monitor and should be displaying the picture that is now showing on your desktop. 5. Your PC comes equipped with a few standard desktop backgrounds that you can choose if you wish. Note the list below the picture of the monitor. If you double click on any one of the items it will display in the small monitor to give you an idea of what it will look like. If you like one of the standard themes click on APPLY and then OK at them bottom of the screen. It will now appear as your desktop. If you wish to customize your desktop by using a picture you have on your PC, first know where the picture is located. I’ll use MY DOCUMENTS as an example. 1. Starting after step #4 – under the picture of the monitor, locate the BROWSE button and click on it. 2. A screen now appears and at the top of that screen is a LOOK IN field. At the end of this field locate the “v” and click on it. 3. A drop down box appears listing all the locations on your PC. Scroll and find MY DOCEMENTS and click on it. MY DOCUMENTS should now appear in the LOOK IN field. 4. Now below the LOOK IN field, where it now should be showing MY DOCUMENTS you’ll note all the folders and files that you have stored in you’re MY DOCUMENTS. Scroll and locate the picture that you have stored here and now wish to have appear on your desktop (you may have to double click on the name of the picture.) The picture should now be showing on the picture of the monitor. 5. Click on APPLY and then OK and the picture will now appear on your desktop. A NOTE: There are three different ways that you can have a picture displayed on your desktop. You can have the picture cover the whole desktop, center it so that the picture displays in the middle of your desktop or tiled, which kind of breaks the picture up into sections when it’s displayed on your desktop. Under the BROWSE button you’ll see a POSITION button where you can adjust how the picture looks. Choose the position you want and click on APPLY and OK.

My hubby keeps changing the damn thing to what he likes, right now he has a picture of a Smart Car on.

Wesley snipes as blade with his leather coat on - nice

Mr boring I have the pre installed 'Ascent' one with the cloudy mountain.

A tropical island with 1 deck chair sitting just on the waters edge...its my holiday home... I can dream cant I ?????????

A picture of the 'Blackpool Promenade' Complete with the Tower, sands, and donkey's. My heart skips a beat every time I switch it on.Having been raised in Blackpool, it brings back Sooooooooo many happy memories !!!! Dancing till I dropped and laughing till I cried. Happy day's !!!!!!! I am now in California.

Still Legolas. Gwynne

I have Elvis Presley from 'Thats the Way it is' on my screen saver. Yvonne

My sons have taken it upon themselves to change mine frequently, at the moment I have their home made one in claret and blue saying 'Come on you Villa Boyz' with a badly drawn villa shirt! Good job I like football! Kaz

Sue, easiest way is right click on picture and 'set as desktop background' (or wallpaper on net). Bob

Sunset accross Port Philip Bay Taken from Frankston beach in Australia John

A bit thick here, but can someone tell me in easy to understand instructions how I put a different piccy on the screen please. Sue...........

A lovely picture of my Grandaughter holding her niece,my grt grandaughter aged 10 months,taken in Spain ln june 2004 when they were visiting their paternal grandad in Spain. Shirley

I use this site a lot http://www.beautifulbritain*co.uk/htm/others/wallpaper.htm Really good pics. Bob

i have a copy of greatgreat grandads birth cert ,i change it quite often before it was a wysteria i have in the garden,nearly due for msn autumn desktop. karen

I have a picture of our border collie at three months of age, hiding, under the open stairs in my daughters hallway,( with a pair of trainers, ) in the background......LOL Bob

I have St Boniface church in Bonchurch Isle Of Wight as my background because its where my grandparents were married and my dad was christened. I know I am boring lol. jenny

At the moment a Picture of my husband and me in Wales. Jacquie xxxx

The desktop on this computer, it's my husbands computer, is a picture of me holding an aligator! It is only about 2ft long, I'm not very brave! Suex