Wallpaper Position

[Mosaic1]

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Change the Position of the Desktop Wallpaper (All Versions)
Category: Enhancements
Unfortunately Windows only gives you the limited options of center or tile for the placement of the desktop wallpaper. With this setting you can move the image anyway on your desktop.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Create two new string values of 'Wallpaperoriginx' and 'Wallpaperoriginy'. If the values already exist then you simply modify them.

Set the value of 'Wallpaperoriginx' to equal the horizontal offset, and set the value of 'Wallpaperoriginy' to equal the vertical offset. Then either restart Windows, or change your background image through the Control Panel.

Note: The image is offset from the center of your desktop, so you can use positive and negative values.




Settings
Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
Value Name: Wallpaperoriginx, Wallpaperoriginy
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: Distance in Pixels


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I have never been able to get this to work. I follow the directions, but My Wallpaper ends up centered, tiled or stretched. Does anyone know how to make this work? Thanks in advance.

[reghakr]

Haven't trid this myself, Mo, but could it be the case of the letters?

From Axcel216's site:

By editing the Registry you can add a third option: to position the wallpaper anywhere on your screen by specifying values for the X and Y coordinates.
Run Regedit.exe and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Create 2 new Strings and call them "WallpaperOriginX" and respectively "WallpaperOriginY" (don't type the quotes). Give these entries the desired values to position your bitmap off the center on your Desktop.
Example:
"WallpaperOriginX"="1"
"WallpaperOriginY"="1"

NOTE: The repositioned wallpaper must be smaller than your desktop size (duh...).

reghakr

[Mosaic1]

Reghakr,
I tried it both ways. I even set DWORDS instead. Maybe if we could get rid of the centered, tiled or stretched options, it would work??

[reghakr]

You may be right. read this over:

Play around with tweakUI, or remove the entries manually. Again, from Axcel's site:

Windows 98 is meant to improve our computing capabilities, at least that's how it is advertised. Unfortunately this is not entirely true. :-(
Sadly, Win98 (ALL final retail/OEM releases) lost some of the features built into Windows 95/OSR2 systems. Here are just a few examples:
No more centered dialog boxes/windows, enabled in Win95/OSR2 ONLY by using 3rd party video/desktop drivers/programs, like ATI Technologies Mach/Rage Win95/OSR2 video drivers/tools, available for free at the ATI tech support web site, for all ATI PCI/AGP video controllers owners.

No more virtual desktops, larger than the selected Desktop size, built-in the Display Properties applet, also available to Win95/OSR2 users by using 3rd party video drivers/tools.
And a BUG I have found:

The "Stretch wallpaper to fit desktop" feature introduced by MS Plus! Pack for Win95, and built into OSR2's Display Properties applet, is NOT available if you uncheck the "IE4 enabled" and/or "Active Desktop enabled" boxes in TweakUI's IE4 tab [110 KB, free, unsupported].
To install TweakUI, right-click on Tweakui.inf and select Install. When done, open Control Panel and (double)-click on TweakUI.

But you CAN have your wallpaper stretched to fit your Desktop size, even if you're not using TweakUI's "IE4 enabled" feature, by applying the Registry workaround described below.
The Desktop wallpaper, also called background picture, uses a Windows RGB (Red-Green-Blue) encoded bitmap (.BMP file), or a jpeg (.JPG file).
Newer 32-bit web browsers, like MS IE 4/5/6 and Netscape Navigator/Communicator 3/4/6 can also "Set [image] as wallpaper", usually if you right-click on an picture/image found on a web page, in any of these formats: GIF (animated GIFs will appear as static if you're not using the Win98/IE's "Display desktop as a web page" feature), BMP, JPG, PNG etc.

The only way to have your wallpaper/bitmap stretched to the Desktop size in Win98 (without using TweakUI "IE4 enabled" check box), is to run Regedit, and then go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop

Right-click in the right hand pane, and look for the "WallpaperStyle" string. If it is not present, select New, String, and type in "WallpaperStyle" (no quotes). Then double-click on this new String and give it a value of 2. Close the Registry Editor.
The next time you will restart Win98, your Desktop wallpaper will be displayed full screen (at any resolution).

If you want to have your Desktop bitmap back to its original size, just modify the "WallpaperStyle" String again to read 0 (default value).
On Win98 systems [ONLY IF using TweakUI's "IE4 enabled" feature :(] the wallpaper can be stretched by running: Control Panel -&gt; Display -&gt; Background tab -&gt; Wallpaper box -&gt; Display -&gt; Stretch check box.

NOTE: You might also need to CENTER your wallpaper, if your bitmap is meant to be displayed full screen (large size), by modifying the "TileWallpaper" string to read 0, under the same Registry key above, or start Control Panel -&gt; Display -&gt; Background tab -&gt; Wallpaper box -&gt; Display -&gt; Center check box.

reghakr

[Mosaic1]

Reghakr,


Thanks.
I read it, but didn't get a clear answer to this problem. Here's what a friend asked. He Downloaded Wallpaper. He wants to have his icons on the left and the Wallpaper on the right side of the screen.
I am stumped.

[reghakr]

How about turning off or on Active Desktop.

Or make some changes to the win.ini file. This file is updated (or changed) when any wallpaper changes are made. The following is just an exmple:

CHANGES MADE TO C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI...
KEYS CHANGED IN C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI:
[Desktop]WallpaperStyle=0 to 2

REGISTRY KEY VALUES CHANGED:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Value "WallpaperStyle": from "0" to "2"

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General
Value "WallpaperStyle": from "0" to "2"

I think you realize it will take alot of time experimenting.

reghakr

[Mosaic1]

reghakr,
Thanks. I'll play with it and let you know if I get any results.