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You don’t have to be a famous artist to make great game art. In this video, David Thany walks you through creating a background that sets the stage for your game. Watch, then draw along with the tutorial at Link Removed. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video each Monday for the...

All of my stuff on Windows 7 shrunk ever since the update last night. Notice in the picture how my background doesn't fit the screen anymore and this java applet is much smaller than it used to be. What do I do? :s

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit So I had the "Windows Repair" virus. I succesfully removed it with MalwareBites and Ad Aware and everything seems to be working fine, with exception to my desktop background. It's pitch black. When I try to change it through personalize ->desktop backgrounds...

Hello, Often I find that my screensaver will not work because there is a program running in the background. I have traced this to a program I think is called 'countdown timer'. Sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't. Any idea what this is or how I can get the screensaver to work properly? Nevica

Relatively simple ways to remove Windows 7's floating-color-balls start-screen animation, and supply your own background images for the operating system's log-on screen and desktop. More...

I have two 4:3 monitors side by side. Both of them are set to 1280x1024. My desktop is extended across both. I downloaded a 2560x1024 image and set it as my background. I went into personalization/etc. and set it to 'Tile' as Google results repeatedly said I should. No matter what I do...

Every time I try to change my desktop background (the original is from google picasa 3) it goes back to the original picture after restarting the computer. I've tried changing it in control panel and what not. It's not an urgent problem but I would like to fix it. Thanks!

Hi guys, I have windows 7 and as u know i have a problem :(:(:(. The problem started when i woke up from sleep |-) while haveing my computer on because i was downloading something. When i woke up i saw that i could only see my backgound picture and nothing else. I know what u thinking USE TASK...

Hi there, This morning, automatic updates basically reset my computer. I am using Windows 7 Starter on a relatively old computer. The last time I accepted automatic updates my computer crashed, so I typically refrain from accepting them. When I turned on my computer today and saw what...

How can I change the current background image for the welcome screen? Which requirements exist for this image? Must it be in *.BMP format or can it *.png or *.jpg as well? Must it be exactly the site of the screen or is it (if necssary) stretched/shrinked? Peter

Hello. I searched the forums about my problem but really couldn't find what I really expect. So I decided to create a topic about it. My problem is basicly about changing background of the start menu. It is pure white and really annoys me. Is there a way to put a picture instead of this...

Is there really no way to make the explorer background transparent in Wondows 7? I saw it in several places online, including youtube and etc, but no matter how much searching I do, I cannot find a straightforward way to do this. Does anyone here know? I'm not talking about chaoscrystal which...

QI want to watch the Windows 7 tutorial videos but the background music drowns out the commentary. Can I either cut the music out or reduce the volume? Link Removed

Everything is gone, my background, the Start button, date time in the right hand corner, the entire task bar at the bottom of the screen. I have uninstalled the AVG update and restored to just prior to the update but everything is still gone. I can access the desktop from the My Documents...

Hi all, my background doesn't look good. See attachment. I use windows 7 pro x64 and ATI HD4850. Anyone has any idea why?

I have the computer set up to put the monitor and the hard drives to sleep after 45 minutes. Apparently, I am using a thymes background where the thymes are auto changing every 30 minutes. My question is, will the thymes prevent the hard drives from sleeping? If the computer is not...

I am guessing its my settings in windows 7 or something? I never touched them. They worked fine before till now. I can hear my music but I can't hear the people singing (well that supposed to be singing) in the background of the music anymore. What did I do?

Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 comes with lots of enhancements and new features. One of them is the new Library view which allows users to manage their playlists, music, videos, recorded TV, etc. Library view shows a nice minimal image in the background but did you know you can...

Hi everyone, I have quite a trivial problem, but it's really annoying me! I brought my laptop with Windows 7 64-bit preloaded onto it. The welcome screen and the screen where it shows all the usernames was black and my laptop came with a wallpaper preloaded onto it (black background with old...

Hello, I recently bought a new HP Pavilion desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium factory installed and installed some of my old games on it. Well, for the past week or two I've had this rather annoying problem where I leave my computer on for an hour or so, come back, wake the computer up only...