Vanishing act of desk top picture.

robot1002 · 15-02-2011, 14:27

Hello, Here's question for you..I select a desktop picture, set it in place, and it's fine. Next time I log on it's gone,,. I can do this procedure 3x times a day, but I can not get the picture to stay put. My upstairs computer is fine, no probs with it ....
Any idea's...Thank's

Mick · 15-02-2011, 16:37

First of all it would help to know what operating system your using

Less · 15-02-2011, 16:46

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Originally Posted by mick

First of all it would help to know what operating system your using

Second of all, are you suffering from poor eyesight? If so that would explain:-

1/ Why you can't see the piccy.

2/ Why you have to post with such large writing.

Neil · 16-02-2011, 00:39

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Originally Posted by Less

Second of all, are you suffering from poor eyesight? If so that would explain:-

1/ Why you can't see the piccy.

2/ Why you have to post with such large writing.

Like your sig you mean

accyman · 19-02-2011, 11:07

if you have a pirate copy of windows it will revert to a plain desktop each time you reboot.Thats the only reason i can think as to why this is happening

do yo get any warning when you boot up saing you may be a victim of conterfit software or a blue star near your clock on the taskbar ?

MargaretR · 19-02-2011, 11:51

I don't understand why people want to have a desktop picure.
Whenever I get a new PC, the first thing I do is get rid of the one already loaded, and choose a neutral shade of grey. I have the same attitude to screensavers.

I do like pictures - in photo albums and on my walls, but I don't want my PC cluttered with someone elses idea of art.

accyman · 19-02-2011, 16:14

jesus marge has someone slipped you some misery pills today lol

maybe a picture of some gruel to compliment the nice nuteral grey

you can use your own pic you dont have to use the standard ones.

personaly i have that many programs installed yu cant see the picture

DaveinGermany · 19-02-2011, 16:31

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Originally Posted by accyman

jesus marge has someone slipped you some misery pills today lol

maybe a picture of some gruel to compliment the nice nuteral grey

You need to be a tad careful there Accy Man, you'll be getting the cyber version of the wagging finger.

I did the last time I commented humorously/flippantly.

It was something about catering Lizards.

entwisi · 19-02-2011, 18:38

personally I can't see why people clutter their desktop with hundreds of icons for crappy apps that they rarely use.

use a decent managed menu structure and you dont have to do such silly stuff.

back to OP, if its a genuine copy it appears your profle is screwed. you may need to make a new one

cashman · 19-02-2011, 20:29

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I don't understand why people want to have a desktop picure.
Whenever I get a new PC, the first thing I do is get rid of the one already loaded, and choose a neutral shade of grey. I have the same attitude to screensavers.

I do like pictures - in photo albums and on my walls, but I don't want my PC cluttered with someone elses idea of art.

happen cos yer too busy trying to save the world?

i have a pic of seafront n apartment as me pic n it makes me smile every day, perhaps it folk being happy yeh dont understand?

robot1002 · 27-03-2011, 20:31

May have asked this before...Right, I select a photo for my desktop, click (set as desktop) ..There it is large as life. then I do other things, web etc, and go back to desktop, No picture. I can repeat this performance over and over, but my piccy just disappears... This only happens on my laptop (downstairs) the big one upstairs is fine...What's going on please....Tony

robot1002 · 31-03-2011, 20:59

Well Thank's to all of you for the cure to my prob of vanishing desk top picure... Did not get the answer to it really. but did I expect one really ? I think not !! As to the advice from accyman a special thank's to you. I did have this laptop repaired localy, and told my hard drive was faulty. He said he would replace it for £ 70-00 plus vat.. when I got it back it says on screen just above the clock This copy of windows is not genuine... Also the drive is of less size than the one that came with it.. It was bought from car phone warehouse so it would have been the goods .........Tony

accyman · 03-04-2011, 20:24

you can either report him to trading standards,ask for your money back or use wga fix so yor windows xp will look genuine and recieve updates.If he put vista or win 7 on there are other methods but the shop should not be selling you pirate instalations

Restless · 14-04-2011, 19:52

robot do you have a key on the bottom of your laptop for ur original installation?