# How do I turn this picture into wallpaper?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389 "2000-09-07T18:26:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389/21 "2000-09-08T00:26:38Z")

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handy, stretch shows up in 95 with MS 95 Plus+.

–Tim

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389/22 "2000-09-08T01:39:31Z")

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Now the word of caution (somebody had to ruin this party):  
The more complex and detailed your wallpaper is, the more resources needed to keep it up there. The result: slower computer. Keeping wallpaper simple, with as few colors as possible is a simple trick to keep a slower computer up to snuff. If you have a 1GHz processor or a 32MB video card, then it probably won’t matter much.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389/23 "2000-09-08T01:58:50Z")

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Yup, I remember reading about that and telling a friend to take it down because her computer was too slow. I never liked having wallpaper anyway, but knowing it uses resources is another reason not to have it. I have a nice collection of photos I like to look at once in a while but I just open them when I want to see them. Which reminds me of something I have always wanted to do which is a slide show but I will start another thread for that.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-this-picture-into-wallpaper/32389/24 "2000-09-08T15:26:42Z")

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I got a ATI All in Wonder video card. You can connect a camera to the computer & have whatever it sees as your desktop. So, you could put the camera in the baby’s room & monitor it live all the time on the computer desktop. awesome.

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