Desktop background keeps going black

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Steven L.

Hi all,
I have Vista Home Premium SP1.

I have set my Desktop Background to be one of my favorite pictures.

But every half hour or so, without any warning, the Desktop Background
resets itself to black, and I have to go back into Control Panel to
reset the background to my picture.

What is wrong?



-- Steven L.
 
Hi all,
I have Vista Home Premium SP1.
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I have set my Desktop Background to be one of my favorite pictures.
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But every half hour or so, without any warning, the Desktop Background resets
itself to black, and I have to go back into Control Panel to reset the
background to my picture.
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What is wrong?
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Maybe you have set up a slide show and the picture is alone in its
folder...or maybe you have set up to blank your screen after a half
hour...

If not, I have no other ideas, sorry.
-- Steven L.
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Maybe you have set up a slide show and the picture is alone in its
folder...or maybe you have set up to blank your screen after a half hour...
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the desktop background goes blank
at regular time intervals.

I just meant that the desktop background goes black *frequently*. It
seems to happen when I'm doing something major like installing a new
application or something.

I've done some Google searches, and it seems that other users of Vista
have reported a similar problem--but so far, none of the proposed fixes
have helped.

Perhaps there's something in Service Pack 2 that will fix this. I've
still got only SP1.
 
Gene, I wasn't aware Vista had that option. I thought only 7 was able to do
a slideshow for backgrounds.
 
There was an example program to create one in the Visual Studio set up
at one time because I played with it, but was that not an option in the
image viewer or whatever it was called?

Charlie Tame
 
Yeah, I think I screwed up here. I was running Mac OS X for a while,
and apparently misremembered where the slideshow was.

I blush with shame (not really!) - but I am sorry to have misled.
 
Now see what you've gone and made me do?!?! I went and tore apart Vista
looking for sideshow and you know what I found? Windows 3.1. :-)
 
OK, now my head is spinning. Yikes :-)

Are you trying to tell me that Vista is lipstick on a pig?
 
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