When I right-click on an image that is displayed in my browser and choose “Set As Desktop Background”, my computer gives me a choice to select Tile, Center, or Stretch.

When I right-click on an image that is in Windows Explorer or a folder view, it doesn’t. It just sets it. My default was to Tile it, and it was driving me batty, because I’d have to go back into the Desktop properties and fix it.

I wanted the default to be to center the image as my wallpaper.

In order to do this, you have to change the registry setting. As usual, when playing with the registry, you are best off backing it up first, just in case. That said, bring up the registry editor with regedit and look for \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. The keys WallpaperStyle and TileWallpaper set the wallpaper orientation.

Center

• WallpaperStyle = 0
• TileWallpaper = 0

Tile

• WallpaperStyle = 0
• TileWallpaper = 1

Stretch

• WallpaperStyle = 2
• TileWallpaper = 0

Note that you have to have administrator permissions on the PC to change registry settings.