Want to "write" on wallpaper

[Grice Webster]

Is there some easy way for me to enter some text such that it
becomes the screen's wallpaper?

Of course, I probably need to scale up the font or to repeat the
text in order to fill the screen.

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

In your newsgroup reader, check the newsgroup list for this server
microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize and try your question on that board.

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"Grice Webster" > wrote in message
...
> Is there some easy way for me to enter some text such that it
> becomes the screen's wallpaper?
>
> Of course, I probably need to scale up the font or to repeat the
> text in order to fill the screen.

[Michael Burk [MSFT]]

You may want to look into Active Desktop for some how-to articles, but it
will allow you to do things like this.

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Michael Burk

Longhorn Shell
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"Grice Webster" > wrote in message
...
> Is there some easy way for me to enter some text such that it
> becomes the screen's wallpaper?
>
> Of course, I probably need to scale up the font or to repeat the
> text in order to fill the screen.

[CWatters]

Wallpaper is just an image and you can create one containing text using MS
Paint.

After putting it on the desktop Set Display Properties -> Desktop ->
Position to "stretch" and it will enlarge it to fill the screen.


"Grice Webster" > wrote in message
...
> Is there some easy way for me to enter some text such that it
> becomes the screen's wallpaper?
>
> Of course, I probably need to scale up the font or to repeat the
> text in order to fill the screen.

[[email protected]]

You don't even need active desktop.

You can create your image (be sure the size of the image meets the screen size
that you want) and save it as a "BMP" format file in the Windows folder.

Then, Right click on the desktop, properties, desktop, then scroll thru
background for your file. Select options to tile or stretch if desired.

That's it!

Fred


"Michael Burk [MSFT]" wrote:

> You may want to look into Active Desktop for some how-to articles, but it
> will allow you to do things like this.
>
> --
> Michael Burk
>
> Longhorn Shell
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn
> ----===========================----
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Grice Webster" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Is there some easy way for me to enter some text such that it
> > becomes the screen's wallpaper?
> >
> > Of course, I probably need to scale up the font or to repeat the
> > text in order to fill the screen.