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More info?)
Actually, if you set a wallpaper using IE, and then set a wallpaper from a
file, you get two wallpapers. the IE loads before the one from the file...
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"Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
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> Eddie Van Helsing wrote:
> > Thanks, but the problem is when you first boot, the undesirable image
> > loads first, then the current wallpaper.
> >
> > "Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
> > news:FKOdnadJk5Di1TDd4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> >> Eddie Van Helsing wrote:
> >>> friend saves photo from email, pc used IE to open image, right
> >>> clicked ,chose save as wallpaper.Now, she can't find the image to
> >>> delete it so it won't load as wallpaper.Deleted email, searched on
> >>> pc for the filename of the photo, cant find file(photo).
> >>
> >> Right click on desktop, select properties, desktop tab, select
> >> another or a solid color.
> >>
> >> Q
>
> There are only two ways to present an image on the desktop - a boot
> screen, or desktop wallpaper. What you are describing is a boot screen
> that is presented only during boot and is replaced with the wallpaper
> when the system is running. The boot screen image is contained in
> C:/Windows/System32/NTOSKRNL.EXE, and this file is not readily editable
> by users although it can be done. Your user most likely has some
> utility that will make a boot screen and generate an acceptable
> NTOSKRNL.EXE file to contain it. Google: XP boot screen - there are a
> number of utilities that will edit the boot screen.
>
> Otherwise, it is possible that if you run sfc[space]/scannow[enter] from
> a command prompt that System File Checker will replace a modified
> NTOSKRNL.EXE with an unmodified original.
>
> Q
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