Solved Black Border around Wallpaper

[JetsonB]

I am a multiple monitor user, and I am noticing an annoying black border around the wallpaper on my secondary monitor.

SECONDARY MONITOR SCREENSHOT
(The Taskbar is a DisplayFusion Copy, see the borders around the wallpaper?)

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MY MONITOR SETUP

I'd like to know how to eliminate these borders around my wallpaper. The wallpaper is set to Fill.

 

[Bongo]

Welcome to the Seven Forums

Are you using an individual picture for each monitor or are you spanning two monitors with one picture?

Are your wallpapers the same resolution as your monitors?

I see you mentioned DisplayFusion have you checked the settings with it to see if there is something to change?

Jerry

 

[JetsonB]

Welcome to the Seven Forums

Are you using an individual picture for each monitor or are you spanning two monitors with one picture?

Are your wallpapers the same resolution as your monitors?

I see you mentioned DisplayFusion have you checked the settings with it to see if there is something to change?

Jerry

I do not use DisplayFusion for the wallpaper, I am still using MS themes. I have one picture that displays on each monitor, fill setting, and changes every 15 mins.

See the sceenshot below:

 

[Bongo]

What size are the images, are they the same size as the resolution on the monitors?

Jerry

 

[JetsonB]

I forget, where is the directory for user-installed themes?
Ex: If I downloaded a theme from the Windows Live Gallery, where would it install the files to when I click on it?

--Ben

UPDATE: My current theme can be seen here, or directly downloaded here.

 

[JetsonB]

Personalization Settings Panels Screenshots

Thought this might be helpful:

Screenshot of personalization window:

Screenshot of wallpaper slideshow settings panel:

Hope this helps!
--Ben

 

[Bongo]

I forget, where is the directory for user-installed themes?
Ex: If I downloaded a theme from the Windows Live Gallery, where would it install the files to when I click on it?

--Ben

UPDATE: My current theme can be seen here, or directly downloaded here.

Look at the screenshot below highlighted in red will show you where those backgrounds are located.



AppData is hidden use step 3 of this tutorial to unhide it http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/56005-file-folder-hide-unhide.html

I will hook up my external monitor sometime this afternoon and see what I can do.

Jerry

 

[JetsonB]

How stupid of me to not notice the link sitting right in front of me! Anyway, my monitor resolutions, as seen in the image:

The wallpaper image is 1920x1200

 

[Bongo]

I hooked up my external monitor and did some testing and I cannot reproduce what you have. I have the same resolution set up as you.

On your Elo Touchscreen do you have any settings that will let you adjust the width or height?
Do you have a another monitor you could try and see if you get the same results?
Do you have the Orientation set to landscape?


Jerry

 

[JetsonB]

Here's my screenshot of Screen Resolution:

I have another monitor, it is much bigger than the touchscreen, and it produces the same results when the resolution is set to 1024x768. If it set to default 1600x900, it displays fine.

Dell Monitor Setup:

 

[Bongo]

I am totally out of ideas on what to do, I will ask and see if anybody else has any ideas so you'll have to wait and see if anybody else comes up with something.

Sorry
Jerry

 

[CB]

Hi Ben.
What Display card that you are using now. Is it ATI Series. If it is you can check it out in ATI control Panel. Sometimes it is due to an overscan.
Here is an old thread [Black Border Around Screen] that had similar discussion about it. Hope you can start from there.

Kevin

Edit: I just realized that the issue I referred was about Dual monitor with HDMI connection. I think it doesn't apply to yours. Apologize for not reading your spec carefully.

 

[marsmimar]

I'm kinda grasping at straws here but maybe this will jog somebody else's memory. Have you seen a menu item (perhaps in the video card control center or whatever it's called on your machine) that has a desktop and display option (or something similar)? Somewhere within that menu may be a scaling option and the ability to adjust an overscan setting. Sometimes the scalability or overscan settings needs to be changed to eliminate a border effect.

Sorry if I'm not explaining this the right way. I had an external monitor at work a long time ago and the IT Dept had to reconfigure scaling and/or overscan to get rid of a pesky border.

EDIT: I think Kevin might be thinking along the same lines as me.

 

[JetsonB]

I'll add my graphics card info to my specs soon, but anyway,

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DirectX 10.0
Driver Version 8.15.10.2302

I have no idea what an overscan is, and do not see it anywhere in the Intel control panel.

My monitors:

ELO Touchscreen - Connected by VGA

 

[CB]

After reviewing your pictures attachment I have a thought that your display problem on second monitor is limited only to wallpaper issue, not the underscan issue. I figured it out by seeing your taskbar on second monitor was able to occupy all available screen field including the black border area. But sadly I haven't found how the wallpaper border come into view.

btw about underscan. If you are using Intel Graphic you can see an underscan thing through Intel display control panel. Underscan is a setting in which it will set the resolution to certain percentage of the actual resolution.
Here is the Intel display control panel. But it affect the whole screen area.


Hope someone will come up with better ideas.

Kevin

 

[JetsonB]

Custom resolutions will void my warranty, see error:

 

[JetsonB]

I recently downloaded some new wallpaper, and made a new theme. The images are mixed sizes, but 95% of them are 1280x800, like my laptop display.

The wallpaper settings:

Set to:

• Picture Position: Fill
• Change every 15 minutes
• Shuffle Off
• Pause on battery (yes)

~~Ben

 

[JetsonB]

I have figured out how to solve the problem, posting back results.

I never really had thought about setting the wallpaper to center, because on XP, I disliked the way it looked. My issue was fixed by setting the wallpaper to Center.

**EDIT: The center function will clip off a bit of the edges on the wallpaper image.

 

[marsmimar]

Glad to hear you got this resolved. Thanks for posting back!

 

[Bongo]

That's good to hear, thanks for replying back with a answer.