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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition

Figure 2-3: Try different backgrounds by clicking them; click

the Browse button to see pictures from different folders.

4. Click different pictures to see how they look as

your desktop’s background.

When you find a background you like, you’re

done. Exit the program with a click in its upper-

right corner, and your chosen photo drapes

across your desktop.

Here are some tips on changing your desktop’s

background:

✓ Options listed in the Picture Position section let

you choose whether the image should be tiled

repeatedly across the screen, centered directly

in the middle, or stretched to fill the entire

screen. The Tile, Fill, and Fit options work best

with small photos, such as those taken with cell-

phones, by repeating or enlarging them to fit the

screen’s borders.

✓ The desktop’s Internet Explorer web browser

can easily borrow any picture found on the

Internet for a background. Right-click on the

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