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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
I dunno you should all tidy your rooms  |
This tidy enough, zinglebarb? I usually put everything on toolbars and hide the icons on my desktop. Takes a bit more memory, I suppose, but it's the only way to really show off your desktop!
I like to use 1600 x 1200 desktops; I had to reduce it because CF wouldn't let me upload the full size. I find the best way to minimise overheads with wallpaper is to use .bmp files sized to your desktop (and use the 'Center' option). Although that makes for more disk space used, it takes the least resources to show on your desktop because the file doesn't need decompressing or resizing when it's refreshed.
By using B/W photos (which aren't just black & white, BTW: they'll look awful if you actually reduce the colour depth to 2 colours) and pictures with only a few colours in (this is a good example) you can also reduce file size by reducing the colour depth. Reduced colour depth also means they work well as GIFs for transfer - i.e. uploading here! The actual file size for this one as a 1600 x 1200 .bmp on my desktop is 1877KB. In 16 million colours it would be over 5000KB