How to Use a Web Page as Your Computer's Background Picture

You can use any Web image, or the whole page, as your computer's background picture. You see it, you like it, it's your wallpaper.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Windows

Instructions

Setting a Whole Page as Wallpaper

1. First, save the page and all its graphic files to your hard disk. (Use the Save command in the File menu.)

2. Open the Display control panel and click the Background tab.

3. Click Browse.

4. Find the Web page file on your hard disk and click Open.

5. Choose whether to tile, stretch or center the image.

6. Click Apply to see how the page looks as wallpaper; then you can change it if you don't like it.

7. If it pleases you, click OK.

Setting One Page Image as Wallpaper

1. When you're viewing a Web page with an image you want to use as your screen background, right-click on the image.

2. From the menu that appears, click Set as Wallpaper.

3. The default settings tile the image (repeat it) across the screen. To stretch or center it instead, first open the Display control panel: Click Start, then Settings, then Control Panels. Double-click the Display icon.

4. Click the Background tab.

5. Indicate whether you want the image to be tiled, stretched or centered.

6. Click OK.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also set a Web page as your Active Desktop. This allows you to display live content such as news, stocks or weather reports on your desktop.

• If you right-click on a page's background, the background image will be set as the wallpaper.

• Images and files used as background images consume system resources. If resources are scarce, consider removing the background image from your desktop.