erk - my wallpaper quality

Friday, June 20, 2003 by Ross M | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I was dicking around with font smoothing settings etc this morning (not sure if it has to do with the problem, though). Anyway, I've noticed that now when I stretch my wallpapers, they look horribly chunky, I've checked my resolution, colors, etc, but I can't find anything about desktop quality. Windows is doing something to my wallpapers, the images look fine when they're not used as backgrounds, and if I quit explorer, it magicly fixes itself.

Any suggestions? I'd rather not restart, cause I spent an hour installing like 5 sims expansion packs, lol, but I will, as a last resort, just looking to see if anybody had any brilliant solutions.
Jafo
Reply #1 Friday, June 20, 2003 12:27 AM
Check what colour depth you have on your screen....if you just installed game 'bits' it's possible that the colour depth/res has been altered...
Ross M
Reply #2 Friday, June 20, 2003 12:36 AM
Negative, Thanks for the help, but Color Depth and Resolution are nominal.
Ross M
Reply #3 Friday, June 20, 2003 9:45 AM
Ack! I did a system restore and that Still didn't help. When the computer reboots, it will be fine. Explorer loads, a couple programs open, then Bam! The whole thing goes crappy. I closed a number of processes, and the only one that fixes it is explorer.

Now I really need help
Ross M
Reply #4 Friday, June 20, 2003 10:57 AM
hmm nm I fixed it:D

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