strange wallpaper behaviour

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Will Gortoa

Under W98SE I had all my own documents, etc., in a folder on the C:\
drive, as opposed to having them within the My Documents folder. [Mostly
due to some known issues within W98]

Following the upgrade to XP, for convenience, I decided to move this
folder back into the My Documents folder for easier/quicker navigation
in the Explore window.

Obviously this meant rejigging some connections/links [e.g. auto back-up
to Money, some amended shortcuts, etc.], All of which I appear to have
achieved with no ill effect. However...

I'm seeing some very strange behaviour in the desktop wallpaper
department. Initially, as I use my own images, the link had gone after
the move, so I went back into the relevant Desktop properties to select
the new location. However, on each subsequent reboot [twice] the image
has disappeared again. If I now look in the Desktop properties preview
window, the image is there (in the small preview screen), seemingly
already selected!...but doesn't appear on the desktop itself. The
'Apply' button is greyed out. If I then navigate to the image within the
folder, the 'Apply' button becomes active again, but the image still
refuses to load as wallpaper. % }

Any ideas?

And, more importantly, is this one obvious problem that I'm currently
seeing, and the aforementioned was actually not a very wise move?!



FOOTNOTE: I managed to get a wallpaper to 'take' this morning, but after
15 minutes of general computer usage it suddenly disappeared again!

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Will Gortoa

Running: OS-XP Pro/2.9GHZ processor/512Mb memory/40GB hard drive/Demon
HomeOffice broadband through SpeedTouch NAT router/Turnpike 6.05S mail-news
reader.
 
It sounds like a systemlink got damaged since your upgrade was modified. I
have a few things that may help.

1. Change to a different wallpaper.
Reboot.
move the image that is causing the issue to a different location(preferably
on the C drive).
1a. see if the new walpaper will stick, if not skip to step 2.
if wallpaper functions properly reboot again.
change walpaper back to the one causing the issue that is now in a new
location
If this still does not work go to step 2.

2. Create a new user account
reboot
login as new user
change wallpaper to malfunctioning wallpaper
see if the issue still occurs, if not consider the problem solved and move
data to new user.

If issue still occurs either something is wrong with the wallpaper file, or
with the install. Choose replacing the wallpaper file or reformatting.
 
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