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Windows 95-2000 still had the pattern option as well: https://i.imgur.com/WVePNGj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WVePNGj.jpg Fun times were had by my young self, thou
by Nition 4y ago
Windows 95-2000 still had the pattern option as well: https://i.imgur.com/WVePNGj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WVePNGj.jpg
Fun times were had by my young self, though like you I had forgotten all about it until just now.
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Edit: Oh wow, it's secretly still an option, even in Windows 11!
Try this:
- Get rid of your wallpaper image, set it to Solid Color instead.
- Open regedit.
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop.
- Add a new String Value called Pattern.
- Set the value of Pattern to the data from one of these: https://i.imgur.com/C2KcZFE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C2KcZFE.jpg
Or presumably a custom one, since the data just seems to be the pixels to colour, but I'm not sure in what format. I just tried it with Tulip though and now I have a desktop tulip pattern!
- gorgoiler 4y agoThank you for posting this. I spent a long time hating on “M$” back in the day when they were embracing and extending everything, including the web. As the years go by though, I have built only an ever increasing respect for how Windows manages to retain backwards comparability with the Neolithic ages. …and now, this. Incredible. The numbers themselves look to be eight bytes of eight bits. The 50% gray gives it away: >>> 0b01010101 85 >>> 0b10101010 170 What happens if you put more than 8 bytes in there? Or a negative number? What about “ ªU ªU ªU ªU”, the bytes for the grayscale? Give it a poke!
- Nition 4y agoMakes sense; the pattern is 8x8 pixels, each number representing one row.
- netsharc 4y agoAah, the gradient title bar, IIRC that came with Windows 98.