# Odd computer question...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 26, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306 "2000-12-26T23:45:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306/1 "2000-12-26T23:45:37Z")
[extremely mundane and pointless post]
I’ve got some cool images (that I made) that I put as the background on my computer. The only problem is that they are 320x200, and they won’t fit on the screen. If I set my computer to stretch the images, it fits the screen, but unlike my other computers (I have 2 others) it doesn’t interpolate the image to make it blurry…well, sort of. You see, when I start up the computer, it shows a nice blurry filtered image, for a few seconds, then it reloads the background and it looks all blocky. It also shows the filtered image when it shuts down, but never when I’m actually working. The only way I am able to get a filtered image as the background is if I press PrintScreen at just the right moment as it’s starting up, when it shows the background but not any of the icons. But that’s too much work. Anybody know why this would happen, or how I can get the background on my computer to be interpolated?
[/extremely mundane and pointless post]
(BTW, when I say “interpolated”/“filtered,” I mean that it blurs the sections between two pixels. I actually know how to draw interpolated textures in a computer program, but I’m not going to explain all the math…)
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306/2 "2000-12-27T00:40:02Z")
Make it the same size as your screen resolution in a photo program first.
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### Author:  [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306/3 "2000-12-27T02:47:24Z")
Well, I could do that, but then I’d have a huge picture. And I’d have to do that for every image smaller than my resolution that I set as my wallpaper (though I suppose doing that would take less effort than starting a thread about this stupid question, so maybe I’m just wasting my time.)
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### Author:  [@romanticide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romanticide)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306/4 "2000-12-27T03:03:17Z")
I’m probably way off base here and you’ve probably already given it a shot, but have you tried unchecking “View as web page”?
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### Author:  [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-computer-question/47306/5 "2000-12-28T08:35:47Z")
Wow, thanks! It took me a while to even find that option (it was in a totally different section) but that worked!
(For the record, I made a cool program that randomly generates cool-looking 320x200 images, that I can set as the background. And now it looks really cool!)