In the display properties when you can change your wallpaper, there is a drop down box for "Position" that you can usually change to Stretch or Tile etc. While this has normally worked fine for me for about the year I have had Windows XP installed, it is now stuck on stretch. it is greyed out and i cannot change it. what is going on??

not to sound dumb, but when you RH click on the desktop and got to properties>>desktop>> the option isnt there to change?

no that what im saying...it IS there...but it is greyed out and won't let me change it, no matter which wallpaper i choose, .bmp or .jpg images. see it here.. http://dvation.shackspace.com/sample.gif a screenshot of how its greyed out and i cannot change it no matter which wallpaper i choose.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp Seems to me I too had a similar problem in the past... I believe it had something to with an 'active desktop' setting which can be changed from the 'IE' tab in TweakUI...