Customize Wallpapers
Wallpaper in a random location on the screen Locate the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl Paneldesktop and create a two string parameters 'WallpaperOriginX' and 'WallpaperOriginY'. Ask them the values that correspond to the X and Y coordinates of the upper left corner of the wallpaper images (assuming that you have set the mode in which the selected picture is displayed on the desktop in the singular, that is not reproduced). Gunnar Peterson has many thoughts on the issue. Wallpapers on the desktop is now increasingly in use as wallpaper images, saved in JPEG (JPG). The time required to redraw the screen, in this case increases due to the fact that every time a file is unpacked again. Bame Pule: the source for more info. If, however, the size of the image file does not match the resolution of screen, the image is further compressed or stretched, resulting in a very tangible reduction in speed redraw.
To avoid slowing down, open the file in a graphics editor, resize it the size of the screen and save it in format BMP. Then use as wallpaper a newly created file. Many people like myself do pictures on your desktop. And absolutely nothing, that they are pretty well reduced performance in some aspects, but also spend precious RAM. Example of performance degradation often seen among fans sit in Photoshop, created when the image smaller, or even more scary, larger than the resolution of the desktop, and then sets the parameter to 'Stretch' in the settings of the background. One of my friends because of this forced me to change it quite a decent speed in 2D ASUS AGP/V3000TV on Banshee, believing that Riva128 – terribly slow in 2D chip … Well, I've said nothing that Windows is pretty lame scales the picture, completely losing its quality. But in addition, a background in elementary 1024 by 768 pixels is more than 2 megabytes RAM, which is, well, pretty much at the amount of memory less than 128MB.
If we have a strong desire to hang on the background image, it not better to try to optimize it in Photoshop to 256 colors, including the insertion of dithering. Even some of the pictures look at this quite well. For a practical example you can look at the section rekomendatsiinastroyki Detonator, there is a photo in a rabbit at 256 and 16 million colors. Looks almost identical. But memory is completely different number. Installing New Screen Savers If you have downloaded from the Internet a new screen saver (the file with. Scr), you can temporarily install it by clicking the right mouse button and selecting 'Set'. For it to be installed permanently, you need to copy the file to a directory WindowsSystem. Continuation of the article read here: Windows XP.Nastroyka.Oboi and screensavers