Desktop Display Issue

For some reason, whenever I go to change the background on my desktop it automatically stretches it and won't let me save any other option such as center, fix, or tile. Why is it doing this, and how do I fix it?

Can't tell you why it's doing that, but as a workaround until you find the actual solution, just change the dimensions of the images you want as your Desktop Background and you shouldn't have any problems.

Also, you might try changing your selected options in the Screen Saver section because if you have your Pictures folder selected as the source of your Desktop Background, the images in the Pictures folder work for both Screen Saver and Desktop Background.

It's a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop.

Negative.

Have you tried either/both of my suggestions?

As a workaround until you find the actual solution, change the dimensions of the images you want as your Desktop Background and you shouldn't have any problems.

Try changing your selected options in the Screen Saver section because if you have your Pictures folder selected as the source of your Desktop Background, the images in the Pictures folder work for both Screen Saver and Desktop Background.

I bought the PC around a year and a half ago. It has never really displayed a problem before now.

I have never used a screen saver, so I don't believe that has anything to do with it, and no I haven't changed the dimensions of the images, if I wanted a "workaround", I would have simply done that and not come here for help. I want a solution.

KokoMats said:

I bought the PC around a year and a half ago. It has never really displayed a problem before now.

I have never used a screen saver, so I don't believe that has anything to do with it, and no I haven't changed the dimensions of the images, if I wanted a "workaround", I would have simply done that and not come here for help. I want a solution.

Welcome to the forum KokoMats. In this forum we try to be courteous to those who are simply trying to help us solve our problems. Yes, of course you want a solution, but in the meantime, sometimes a workaround can temporarily allow you to do what you are trying to do while you are searching for an actual solution. (And sometimes there is NO solution -- so you're stuck with a workaround, or nothing.)

In regard to my screensaver suggestion --- whether or not you USE a screensaver is irrelevant --- the sizes of your images can be changed in a NUMBER OF WAYS -- one of which is through the back door, i.e. by changing the photo dimensions in the Pictures folder via the Screensaver Settings app.