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If you are having trouble setting one of our free wallpapers as your PC desktop background, or need help finding the resoloution (size) of your screen then please take a minute to read through our guide to installing wallpapers below. This guide will help you download and install HipHopWalls wallpapers onto your computer for FREE.

In the example below we'll show you how to download one of our HipHopWalls.com wallpapers. Don't worry if you want to choose different wallpaper though, instructions are the same for all wallpapers on HipHopWalls. All you need to do is follow the first step, which shows how to find your screen resoloution (windows) and then follow the steps for the internet browser you are currently using. E.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc etc.

PC USERS: (see below for mac instructions)
1. To find out your screen resoloution (size), you need to minimise this window so that you can see your desktop (the screen you see when you first turn on the computer). Find an empty space and right-click the mouse button. Select 'Properties' from the menu that pops up after right clicking. A box will now appear with tabs across the top, simply select 'Settings' from these tabs and your screen size will be shown in the bottom right-hand corner.

2. If your screen resoloution is set at "800 x 600" this means that when you find a wallpaper you like from HipHopWalls.com you should click on the 800 x 600 links. If your resoloution is set at "1024 x 768" you should click the images 1024 x 768 links instead. If your screen resolution is higher than 1024x768 then after saving your image (see below steps on how to save) you need to also follow the last step of this help page to make the image stretch to fit your screen.

3. After you have selected your resoloution a new window will pop-up with the full size image, in order to save the image after you have clicked on your screen resoloution you need to follow the steps below for whichever internet browser you are using:

Netscape 7.x (Windows):
   1. Once the image has fully loaded right-click on the image of your choice
   2. A pull-down menu window will appear and select Set As Wallpaper
   3. Your selected image should now appear as your dekstop wallpaper.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows):
   1. Once the image has fully loaded right-click on the image of your choice
   2. A pull-down menu window will appear and select Set as Background
   3. Your selected image should now appear as your dekstop wallpaper.

Mozilla Firefox (Windows):
   1. Once the image has fully loaded right-click on the image of your choice
   2. A pull-down menu window will appear and select Set As Wallpaper.
   3. Your selected image should now appear as your dekstop wallpaper.
   4. This program sets a file, in C:\Windows, called "Firefox Wallpaper.bmp". To remove the wallpaper manually open "Windows® Explore". Navigate on your hard drive to "c:\windows" and delete the file called "Firefox Wallpaper.bmp".

MAC USERS: (see above for PC instructions)
Mac OS v8:
   1. Once the image has loaded hold the mouse button until the pop-up menu appears
   2. Choose Save Image As to save your selected image to your hard drive
       (Make note of where you save the image)
   3. Open the control panel and click on Desktop Pictures
   4. Click Remove Picture
   5. Click Select Picture to choose your newly saved image
   6. Load the new wallpaper from where you saved it on your hard drive
   7. Choose Position Automatically

Mac O/S v9:
   1. Once the image has loaded hold the mouse button until the pop-up menu appears
   2. Choose Download Image to Disk to save your selected image to your hard drive
       (Make note of where you save the image)
   3. Open the Appearance control panel and select the Desktop tab at the top
   4. Click Remove Picture
   5. locate the new image on your hard drive and drag it into the left preview panel
   6. Choose Position Automatically
   7. Finally, click on Set Desktop

AND LASTLY........
Regardless of your operating system (OS), platform, etc, you can experiment with smaller or "under-sized" images (eg, a 1024 x 768 image on an 1280 x 1024 monitor), by playing with placement, such as centering the image on your screen, or stretching it to fill the screen, adding colours and more. Please note that filling or stretching the wallpaper to fill a screen may distort the image depending upon your monitor's resolution.

Most of all, Have Fun! It's only a picture after all, there are no software or nasty applications to download in order to use any of HipHopWalls.com's wallpapers, just a simple picture. SO ENJOY!