Customizing the Desktop Background
You can perk up any desktop with a background image. You can center an image on the desktop, stretch an image to fill, or repeat any image as many times as necessary to fill the space. Your background can be supplied by a graphics file in any of several common formats: bitmap (.bmp or .dib extension), Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg or .jpeg), or Portable Network Graphics (.png).
Note
Unlike Windows XP, Windows Vista does not support the use of HTML files as desktop backgrounds.
To select a background, right-click the desktop, choose Personalize from the shortcut menu, and then click Desktop Background. The Picture Location in the Choose A Desktop Background dialog box ...
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