Stop Windows 8 from converting wallpapers to low quality JPGs

Posted by Peter W. on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Peter W.
Published on 2012-11-17T22:50:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/17 23:06 UTC
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This has been bugging me on Windows 7 as well, and much to my chagrin Microsoft didn't bother addressing that issue in Windows 8. Take this image for example: http://mantia.me/goodies/desktops/supermariobros_wide.jpg

It's made for retina Macbooks, so naturally it's being downscaled when setting it as wallpaper on my 1680x1050 screen. Windows 8 manages to make it look like shit, see this screenshot: http://d.pr/i/WGFy

Is there any way of making Windows always the original image, not some JPGized-to-hell version of it?

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