How to Prevent Windows 10 from Compacting Your Desktop Background image

If the computer screen used in your device is 4K, UHD or HD, you will definitely try to find a good desktop background and high accuracy to match it. When you do, you'll notice a series or blurring of the image, which means you have not got the perfect background quality, which makes the desktop on this big screen look bad. This is what happens specifically to Windows users. High-quality backgrounds are automatically compressed in an attempt to improve performance and ensure that the operating system works smoothly. Visual improvements of all kinds affect the slow operation of the system, especially as the internal graphics card is responsible for processing desktop background. This applies to any computer even if it has supernatural capabilities, so you may find that compression and desktop background fragmentation is unusual, and unfortunately, Microsoft does not provide an option in the settings to control it. But there are only two ways to do this, let us review it from the next lines.

Method 1: Convert the image format to PNG

This may be a quick fix to make your desktop background display high quality in Windows. In fact, this solution will not prevent the system from compressing the background but will continue to do so but without appearing as a chain or background noise. The solution idea is simply to convert the image format (which you want to set as wallpaper) whatever to PNG format. This will cause the Windows compression process not to affect the image quality as much as it does to the JPEG format, since compression in PNG does not significantly reduce the quality of images, such as a pixel image. The background will then appear as original on the desktop even after the system presses it.

You do not need to use third-party software to convert the image format to PNG. All you have to do is right-click on the image and choose from the Edit menu to display it in the system's Paint-Paint tool. There you will click on the "File" section and then point your cursor towards Save as to select from the "PNG picture" submenu. Select where to save the image as its new format and then go to this place to set it as a desktop background.

Method 2: Disable JPEG image compression

The second solution may be somewhat complicated because we are about to use the Windows Registry tool to make a simple adjustment that will permanently disable JPEG image compression, so you can set any JPEG image as a desktop background without being subjected to compression, low quality, and a pixel appearance. What you need to do first is to click the Windows and R keys together on the keyboard to type regedit in the Run window that will appear, and after pressing the Enter button, the Registry Editor tool will open. Now follow the following path:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

After you select the Desktop key, click anywhere in the empty space on the right and select New and press 32-bit (DWORD) from the submenu to create a new value that will be given the name "JPEGImportQuality".

Now double-click on the created JPEGImportQuality value and enter "100" in the Value data field and then select Decimal from the Base Part and press OK. Close the Windows Registry tool after that, and then restart the computer. Once it is turned on again, set the image you want as a desktop background and you will not notice any type of compression applied to it, but it will appear in its original quality.