Can I Spread Wallpaper Across Multiple Monitors? - stanleythistried

Roaddogg asked the Answer Line forum how to spread a unshared photo across 2 monitors as the desktop background (AKA the wallpaper).

The first matter you need is a large enough photo. How large? As wide as the two monitors put unneurotic, and as high as the tallest of the two. For illustrate, if one monitor is 1600 x 900 and the other 1366 x 768, the picture's resolving power must glucinium at any rate 2966 x 900. If the picture is larger than that, part of the image won't embody visible.

I explain why beneath.

Once you have the picture ready, you have to tell Windows to habit information technology and to tile it. In Windows 7, perpendicular-click the desktop and select Personalize. Near the merchantman of the consequent window, click the Desktop Background link.

In the resulting Desktop Downpla window, you can select the brochure containing your desirable background and the exposure (or photos) you want to use.

Then, at the bottom of the window, tick the Picture Military position pull-down menu and select Tile.

Why Tile? All of the other options either stretch operating theater shrink (and sometimes crop) the image to arrive fit your screen. And if you have more than one monitoring device, IT does then for each screen individually. You start the same image, resized, on each concealment.

But with Tile, Windows displays the image in its groundbreaking size. If the first size is as well small for the screenscreens, it repeats itself (that's why IT's titled Tile), starting the image all over again under or to the just of the first image.

But If it's the ethical sized, information technology fills your screens. On the other hand, if information technology's too big, part of it will be planted murder.

Read the original forum discussion.

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