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From: sasjcm@ella.unx.sas.com (James McNealy)
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Subject: Re: Wallpaper Question
Message-ID: <1990Nov05.142449.23632@unx.sas.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 14:24:49 GMT
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In article <1990Sep29.161249.4464@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes:
> [Apologies if this has been asked to death - I just joined this group.]
> 
> In general, I like Windows 3.0 - the new graphics are very slick. Win3 does,
> however, have one little annoying thing which I absolutely hate:
> 
> I've tried to load various .BMP files as wallpaper. Often, a dialog box
> will pop up with what has to be the most WORTHLESS error message I have ever
> seen: it says "Can't use FILENAME.BMP as a wallpaper bitmap." or words to 
> that effect. Whenever that window pops up, it makes me want to scream!!!!
> "***WHY*** can't you use FILENAME.BMP as wallpaper, you twit?" The manual is
> no help - it outlines the procedure for installing a .BMP as wallpaper, but
> doesn't tell me what to do when it doesn't work.
> 

	The Microsoft manual has a statement buried in the that says you
may have to reboot windows to display new wallpaper files. This has
something to do with memory constraints. I have a 386 with 4Mbytes of
memory and I have not had this problem, yet.

Jim McNealy          SAS Institute Inc. SAS Circle 
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