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Re: I have windows vista when i click onto a picture or a...
Why would you ever want something to do to your desktop? If you mean you want to use it as a background, then you need to go to the Control Panel, with the display settings, and browse for the file you want to use as wallpaper.
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Tell your picture editor where to download the pictures from. If you don't have an editor try FastStone Image Viewer. Very good easy to use free editor.
I've had this annoyance happen a number of times with the ATI Catalyst graphic cards on Windows Vista, and tend to forget how to fix it, so I'm parking this blog here, and hope it will show up in Google searches for people also suffering from this annoyance who can't seem to get any of those geek squad sites to answer or fix this common problem.
Once again, this is a solution I found for ATI Catalyst graphic cards on Windows Vista. Not other systems. Not other graphic cards. This is not a help desk. This is a blog. If you don't have this system and this graphic card, keep looking. And find a geek help site, this is just a blog. Did I mention that this is for ATI Catalyst graphic cards on Windows Vista? Let's hope by repeating this and bolding it, I will fix the problem of people continuing to ask for other answers.
It's likely rooted in the graphics card problem or maybe even the monitor, but here's what it is:
All of a sudden, your screen tints blue. This isn't "the blue screen of death," but a blue coloured tint that makes everything then purple if it is red, etc. -- and it becomes impossible on your eyes. Second Life becomes impossible to see, etc.
You try going into the display settings to see if the colour tints are off -- nothing works there.
You get the latest driver -- in this case HD ATI Radeon 5700 just got a new driver 7/17 -- and yes, if you buy your computers at Best Buy like I do, and aren't a geek buying parts on Newegg and assembling it all yourself, that's the card you got if you got your computer a year ago.
But that new driver does nothing to solve the blue tinting.
So you check cables, turn off, turn on, take out cables, make sure they are all in place, blow on everything, etc. etc. Nothing makes it change.
So you go to the settings for the monitor -- those impossible menus with the interface where you have to keep plussing and minusing and pushing and getting it wrong and going up and down menus -- really, the dumbest interface there is -- but nothing helps there.
OK, let me help.
This is if you have a PC, of course, we aren't geeks and we don't get Macs.
So you right-click on your desk top and go to PERSONALIZE on the menu -- this is on Windows Vista. You ignore things like colour or changing the colour of Windows -- that won't help.
Go to the bottom, to DISPLAY SETTINGS.
On your first screen, go to ADVANCED SETTINGS.
On your next screen, go to the top to AMD VISION ENGINE CONTROL CENTER.
Truly, ignore all that other stuff that sounds like it might help like "Colour management". Ignore what geeks tell you everywhere which is to change the refresh rate -- you may find you *can't* do that or if you hack out of it to change it will harm your monitor. Ignore.
Next go to the bar at the middle of the page and click again on the AMD VISION CONTROL CENTER.
You get a menu with war game stuff on it.
Over on your left in the middle go to MY VGA DISPLAYS
Select IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS (VGA DISPLAY)
You will see that the little picture of your desktop with a grid over it with arrows is blue/purple.
So grab the arrows or click on the plus or minus as indicated and push it a bit up or down or sideways and watch it turn orange/red -- then it is usually back to normal, you will see pages as white again, the desk top will lose its tint. Yay!
You may have to fuss here a bit, it can take some doing to grab it right and get it back to normal without the tint.
Be sure to click OK on the other screen before that and exit.
click start control panel display desktop you can select a different desktop from the drop down list or a browse button where you can select different picturesthis may vary depending on your operating system also you can change the settings for more or less pixels or from the drop down list pick the appropriate level of colour range or troubleshoot also select advanced then general dpi normal size, larger size or custom settings always click APPLY after making any changes windows 7
Open Personalization by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Personalization.
Click Window Colour and Appearance.
Under Window Colour and Appearance, click the colour you want, and then click OK.
Note
If you see the Appearance Settings dialog box instead of the Window Colour and Appearance
window, the theme might not be set to Windows Vista, the colour scheme might not be set to Windows Aero, or the computer might not meet the minimum hardware requirements for running Windows Aero. For more information, see Troubleshoot problems with Windows Aero.
Exactly what program are you trying to send photos with? Windows Mail, or are you in Pictures. In Pictures simply hold down Control and then click each photo you want to send. When done click Email photos which will appear at the top.
right click on your desktop and go to properties, Click on the desktop tab and change your wallpaper to whatever you want. If you dont see a pic you like in that list click on browse to find the one you want.
The best solution is to re-install vista.
But, for the sidebar problem, try searching for "sidebar.exe" in the start menu.
When you find it, right click it, click properties, then checkmark "start sidebar when WIndows starts"
well,anytime you can change your display wallpaper you can restore it on windows screen left click ,then click properties,click desk top select what display you wanna put on to your windows,you can also put your picture of your family,your love ones,on desk top click browse select my picture,then click the pictue then click ok,its all yours have a nice day don't forget to rate me
I finally figured it out. Somehow I had messed with the Autoplay settings uploading pics the last time I guess. Anyways, if you experience this problem, check this out first and see if it fixes it for you before you do anything else:
What if the import dialog box doesn't appear?
If the dialog box prompting you to import your pictures doesn't appear when you connect the camera to your computer, AutoPlay might be turned off. You can import your pictures using Windows Photo Gallery instead. Here's how:
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Open Windows Photo Gallery by clicking the Start button , clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Photo Gallery.
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On the toolbar, click File, and then click Import from Camera or Scanner.
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In the Import Pictures and Videos dialog box, choose your camera from the list of devices, and then click Import. If you prefer, you can turn on AutoPlay or set AutoPlay to automatically import pictures from a digital camera. For more information, see Change AutoPlay Settings.
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