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by drice

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I have experienced this problem at work, and I am not sure how to handle it. Someone set their background in Windows 98 to a specific setting (picture of her children). Now everytime she reboots the background setting is lost. Any ideas on how to address this problem ???

Thanks in advance for the help.

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by still_learning

Hi, Is it possible that the user set up the background logged on as a user and is bypassing the log on now or vice versa? Hope this helps.

by kelly2121

I experienced this very problem on a 98 platform as well. Each time I rebooted, my 'customized' wallpaper needed to be reset. This did not occur with the Windows default backgrounds, though. I also tried logging in with other users' ids, this did not work. I left that gig b4 I ever resolved this.

by adalger

Is this machine a network-connected machine? If so, does the network boot policy store the settings? On an NT domain (including Win2k), environment changes may or may not be saved when a user logs off; this is a configurable setting.

If not, doesthe user have administrative privileges on the local machine? Does the user have write access to the C:/WINDOWS/ directory? Does the machine have a non-trivial security policy (e.g., does it discard changes to system directories on shutdown)?

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