This is a pack of many Windows XP wallpapers in 1920x1200 (with a few 3840x2160 and 1200x1920 versions), rather than 800x600! Alongside the XP wallpapers, this pack also includes wallpapers from Windows 2000, Mobile 2002-5.0, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Plus! 98 and other stock photos that were taken by Windows photographers. It doesn't have everything, but it still has quite a lot considering their rarity. There are wallpaper-ized versions of the user account pictures if you feel any of those work as wallpapers too.
If you aren't aware, Microsoft licensed most of their wallpapers from stock photo sites such as Corbis and Getty Images. I have used a certain downloader tool to retrieve many of these at higher resolutions, and in some cases I even got some directly from old royalty free stock photo CDs. As stock photo sites sometimes take photos down, not all of them are present in this pack, but I have been trying my best to find them. Also, if you're going to submit any of your finds to this pack, please be aware that I do not accept upscaled wallpapers, as they do not preserve/add details and I feel they have less value than the original images. You can always try contacting the original photographers for full res versions, although be prepared to spend a bit of money.
If you are unsure about anything, read the notes in each folder. These clarify reasons why wallpapers may either look different from expected or why some may be missing.
As you can see, I have included a lot of wallpapers here. Rather than just focusing on the 20 wallpapers bundled in XP, I have taken the liberty of including wallpapers from other editions, along with several other images I feel work as wallpapers. I have gone great lengths with researching these wallpapers, and digging up ones that are high enough resolution for inclusion here.
Included from XP are:
Wallpapers:
This pack has around a third of the iconic Windows XP wallpapers in HD, including fan favorites such as Autumn, Azul and Bliss!
| Name | Included? | Quality | Additional resolutions |
Notes |
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| Ascent | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Autumn | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Azul | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Bliss | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Crystal | No | |||
| Follow | Yes | Medium | ||
| Friend | Yes | Medium | ||
| Home | No | |||
| Moon flower | Yes | Medium | The version Microsoft used is heavily altered; this version is cropped from the original image Microsoft used | |
| Peace | No | |||
| Power | No | |||
| Purple flower | No | The photographer still has a copy, but it looks different and I don't have it in high res | ||
| Radiance | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | Microsoft rotated the image; the vertical version here is not rotated |
| Red moon desert | Yes | Medium | ||
| Ripple | No | |||
| Stonehenge | Yes | Medium | This seems to be a rescanned version, and the colors are slightly off | |
| Tulips | Yes | Medium | The colors are slightly off | |
| Vortec space | Yes | Medium | The colors are slightly off | |
| Wind | Yes | Medium | The colors are slightly off | |
| Windows XP | No |
Wallpapers included in Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP as well as Media Center Edition 2005 under new names.
| Name | Included? | Quality | Additional resolutions |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plus! Aquarium Aquarium |
Yes | Medium | Colors are different because it seems the Plus! team made changes to the colors | |
| Plus! Aquarium2 Ocean |
Yes | Medium | Colors are different because it seems the Plus! team made changes to the colors | |
| Plus! daVinci DaVinci |
No | |||
| Plus! Nature Spring |
No | |||
| Plus! Nature2 Stream |
No | |||
| Plus! Space Space |
Yes | High | 1200x1920 | Colors are different because it seems the Plus! team made changes to the colors |
| Plus! Space2 StarTracks |
No |
Sample pictures:
All of the sample pictures in standard versions of XP are included here! These work well as wallpapers despite not originally being intended as such.
| Name | Included? | Quality | Additional resolutions |
Notes |
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| Blue hills | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Sunset | Yes | Medium | Colors are slightly off | |
| Water lilies | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| Winter | Yes | High | 1200x1920 |
User account pictures:
Over half of these are here. Not all of them may work well as wallpapers, but if having a rubber duck or a suitcase on a white background is your idea of a perfect wallpaper, you're in luck!
| Name | Included? | Quality | Additional resolutions |
Notes |
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| airplane | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
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| astronaut | Yes | High | 1200x1920 3840x2160 |
Not the exact version used in XP, but it's the best I could find and works well enough |
| ball | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | |
| beach | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | |
| butterfly | No | |||
| car | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | The colors are slightly off |
| cat | Yes | Medium | ||
| chess | Yes | High | 1200x1920 | 1920x1200 version not included as too much of the image would be cropped out |
| dirt bike | No | |||
| dog | Yes | Medium | ||
| drip | Yes | High | 1200x1920 | |
| duck | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | The colors are slightly off |
| fish | See Follow | See Follow | ||
| frog | No | |||
| guest | Yes | High | 1200x1920 | |
| horse | No | |||
| kick | Yes | Medium | Microsoft's version is noticeably brightened (likely to provide better visibility); this version retains the colors in the original image | |
| lift-off | Yes | High | 1200x1920 | 1920x1200 version not included as too much of the image would be cropped out |
| palm tree | No | Not available on Getty Images anymore, not on any PhotoDisc CDs and the photographer has passed away... so we're out of luck. | ||
| pink flower | No | |||
| red flower | Yes | High | 1200x1920 | 1920x1200 version not included as too much of the image would be cropped out |
| skate | No | |||
| snowflake | Yes | Medium | 1200x1920 | No 1920x1200 version because I don't have a copy that is at least 1920px wide The colors are slightly off |
Other inclusions:
Included from 2000 are:
Included from Plus! 98 are:
Also included:
Some links that may be of interest to you, all of which were created by me.
Created by fusoxide