The ScreenThemes App (had it since before XP) sold the images (cheaply) but they are in a non-standard format, which is the reason to keep using the App. While an image is being used as the background it exists in a jpeg format and can be saved to a separate folder to be used as you suggest...
I believe you are correct. It seems that the ScreenThemes program that I use to select from a large library of background images is the culprit here. This wasn't a problem with previous versions of Windows where this same program would stretch the images to fill the screens but testing with...
Thanks for locating the registry setting, but what I am interested in is freezing that setting at 'fit'. It is Windows itself that resets this back to the value for 'center' with every restart OR every change of the background picture. What I am looking for is a way to change that default...
Using Personalization to set desktop backgrounds always defaults to CENTER for positioning. I want to use the FIT positioning but every time the background changes (mine does daily) or when some apps run, the system resets the background to Center which fails to fill the screen with the images...
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