phseiff , vor 2 Monaten

@foone iirc pygame (the python library) allows opening/creating a full screen window in just a few lines of code

still requires writing a program technically, but at least it's prolly easier than some other options that do

isaackuo , vor 2 Monaten

@foone

I used ACDSee back in the day, but that was decades ago.

pat , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Without just doing it in DOS?

sluicing , vor 2 Monaten

@foone IIRC I used vueprint for this back in the day, but i don't know if there are old versions of that handy.

raptor85 , vor 2 Monaten

@foone set it as the wallpaper and hide icons/start bar?

ArchusByte , vor 2 Monaten

@foone I believe there was a clipboard viewer in win95? Maybe it was actually ms paint 🤔. We used it to prank other people's computers:

1. Take a screenshot of their desktop
2. view full screen in app
3. people wondered why they couldn't click on things

** Bonus points if you set it to open up on restart

neko , vor 2 Monaten

@foone You could change the "It is now safe to switch off your computer" image 😛

foone OP , vor 2 Monaten

@neko sadly I need to display a 640x480 image so that's not a solution

kboyd , vor 2 Monaten

@foone a web browser in fullscreen mode, perhaps?

ralfmaximus , vor 2 Monaten

@foone

Make it your wallpaper?

But in vb5 or vb6:

1. Form with border set to None and sized to Screen.Width x Height in FormLoad event
2. Picturebox (no border) with Resize Event code to size it to the form
3. Load the image into the Picturebox
4. Run the project

klikini , vor 2 Monaten

@foone maybe PowerPoint 95?

kev , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Who is still using Windows 95?

troldann , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Screensaver photo?

chriscunningham , vor 2 Monaten

@foone trivially, you could install irfanview 4.4 and then just hit the fullscreen key

foone OP , vor 2 Monaten

@chriscunningham I was thinking about that but wasn't sure which version to go back to. Thanks!

chriscunningham , vor 2 Monaten

@foone I was surprised it was as recent as 4.x but then irfanview is like, roughly of the same vintage as mIRC? anyway I finally actually registered it last month which was like decades overdue for one of the greatest services to the windows desktop there has ever been