When you set a desktop wallpaper in Windows, you have only two choices for positioning – Centered and Tiled.(Stretch is not really a positioning option). While this may be sufficient in case of most of the wallpapers, sometimes you wish that you had better control over the positioning of the wallpaper image.
For instance, if you have a small image which you have centered on the desktop, you may find that the icons on the desktop fall on the image while there is lot of empty space towards the right side of your screen. If only you could move the image a little to the right.
You can do that. Here is how.
This needs an edit in the Registry. Open the registry editor by typing ‘regedit‘ in Start>Run. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
There are two String Values that most probably won’t be already available. You will have to create them. The Values are WallpaperOriginX and WallpaperOriginY. These are the horizontal and vertical offsets -in pixels- for the wallpaper, measured from the left and from the top respectively. Once you have created the String Values, set their values to your desired x,y position. This is the position where the left-top corner of the image will start.
You don’t have to restart your computer. Just go to Display Properties and change the settings to either centered or tiled. Choosing Center will position the image to whatever position you set in the Registry. Tiled will place the image at your desired position with the image tiled in other places. Stretch will also position the image where you wanted it but will be of a different size.
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