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From: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Wallpaper Question
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Date: 29 Sep 90 18:02:32 GMT
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In article <1990Sep29.173050.5871@kth.se> palm@admin.kth.se (Christer Palm) writes:
>In article <1990Sep29.161249.4464@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes:
>>If anyone can list a few of the more common reasons why a given .BMP file
>>(which Windows Paint has absolutely no trouble reading, BTW) is flatly
>>rejected as wallpaper without explanation, I'd be most appreciative.
>
>You need at least 1 M memmory to make it possible to use a wallpaper
>Sheck your path to the BMP file you can find it in WIN.INI

I too have this problem.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be just a
problem with lack of memory.  I have a meg, and I can use BMP's as wallpaper.
It's just that some don't seem to work.  (And they are at most 800x640, 16
colours...  Also had the same problem with normal VGA, 16 colour BMP's.)
Any ideas?

Another piece of data.  I recently dloaded an 800x640 BMP that was supposed
to work, yet didn't.

And yet another, I'm using an ATI (Sssssssssssss!!!!) VGAWonder card, maybe
their drivers have something to do with it.  ??

    JWKIII
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