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re: Soultion - Use IrfanView to change Wallpapers
Monday, February 27, 2006 at 7:21 pm
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Posted by Jeff (1 messages posted)

Thanks a lot, this worked! I converted my background picture to a BMP and the shadows were back. I've been trying to figure this one out for days, and it turns out it was something so simple.

On Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 3:22 pm, pile0nades wrote:
>According to this
>post only .bmp files will work with the drop shadow effect.
>
>Using IrfanView, you can change your wallpaper
>and it will automatically convert it to .bmp format and not have to worry about this
>again.
>
>It it under Options > Set as Wallpaper.

Written in response to:: re: Soultion - Use IrfanView to change Wallpapers (pile0nades: Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 3:22 pm)

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