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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: sunilfx on February 14, 2009, 12:51:08 AM

Title: Desktop wallpaper related
Post by: sunilfx on February 14, 2009, 12:51:08 AM

My OS - Win98.

If I use a high-resolution (32 bit bitmap) image as desktop wallpaper, does that affect my pc's performance significantly? I mean, slowing down of pc, increased load on pc resources etc..

Title: Re: Desktop wallpaper related
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on February 14, 2009, 12:55:59 AM

In my experience, using large high definition pictures for my background slows down the loading of my desktop.
If the filesize is small however (less than say 100kb), it should be fine.

Title: Re: Desktop wallpaper related
Post by: Geek-9pm on February 14, 2009, 01:06:56 AM

I have never noticed any difference.
 If the screen has to refresh the background it may be a tiny, tiny bit slower.
But.. if you want to mac the sped you can shut off some other things that do slow it down a bit. In Windows XP, right click on My Computer and select properties. Then advanced. Look for the performance box. Click Settings.

(http://geek9pm.com/computer_performance.png)

Title: Re: Desktop wallpaper related
Post by: sunilfx on February 14, 2009, 12:28:52 PM

Thanks a lot for the hints, mates! If the wallpaper has to be below 100 KB, then I will have to use JPEG images. But the system prompts me that active desktop has to turned on if a JPEG is used for wallpaper. But I have a utility running in the background, that is,'TransText'. This utility doesn't work when active desktop is turned on. So I guess I will have to bear with bigger size of BMP wallpapers.