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My wallpaper changed from going from side to side to having a bar on each side
Hi,
As you all might know, I have a Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP. I just bought it and hooked it up last night and I'm having a few problems and questions about it. I think this will be the last question for a long while.
This last one has to do with my wallpaper. For the first few hours that my computer/monitor were on, the picture went from one side of the screen to the other side of the screen. Without any changes being made at the time, a black bar appeared on both sides of the picture so that it doesn't stretech from side to side any longer. I checked my settings and the "stretch to fit" option was still chosen.
Can someone tell me how I can get the picture to go from one side of the screen to the other side again?
Hi Jimmy . . . thanks for responding.
I use Webshots for my wallpaper. It did stretch from side to side for the first couple of hours and then the monitor blinked and the 2 side bars were there. At that point, I hadn't made any setting changes. I had Webshots set to stay on the same wallpaper so it wasn't changing.
I have XP Pro x64. I went into display properties and the box to stretch the wallpaper was already checked. Is there another setting that can be changed?
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Posted January 26th, 2009 08:00
Check the resolution and make sure it's set to the optimal for the monitor 1920 x 1200.
Hi Jimmy and whtabtxps,
Thanks for your suggestions. The resolution is up to 1920 x 1200 and I tried the auto adjustment on the monitor. The manual adjustment didn't help because it only moved everything to either one side or the other. It's strange that my wallpaper went from side to side for about an hour and then, as I was looking at my monitor, it blinked and the bars were on the sides.
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Posted January 27th, 2009 14:00
Are you using the Webshots Desktop Software, if so you might want to check the settings in that program to see if there is an option to stretch the wall paper.
Hi Jimmy,
I have Webshots and I have the box checked to stretch the wallpaper to fit.
I went to the Webshots website yesterday to get some more pictures and they now have an option to get Widescreen pictures, which is only available for a fee. I'm wondering now if the program "saw" that I didn't sign up for paid widescreen wallpaper and clipped it. It's probably ridiculous but after the way it happened, one second it was widescreen and, without changing any settings and without the wallpaper changing to another picture, the screen blinked and the bars were on each side, it could be a possibility.
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Posted January 23rd, 2009 15:00
Denise
Your wall paper is probably not the same dimensions as your monitors resolution. You will need to go into display properties and stretch your wall paper. How you do that depends on if you are running Vista or XP.