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WindowsME and wallpaper

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by pmutchler

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This is a really stupid question but it's bugging the heck out of me. I just bought a new PC and ME was preloaded. My son drew a great picture so I scanned it in, saved it as a .bmp and tried to use it as wallpaper. I can set it as wallpaper using display properties, background however the minute I shut the pc down, it removes the background. This doesn't happen if I use one of the "stock" backgrounds. I made sure I put the .bmp I created in the same folder as the stock ones but it still won't stick.

Any answers or suggestions?

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by parbo

I'm not sure if you're familiar with the registry if you are here's the path to the setting for your wallpaper. Substitute your login name for the USERNAME portion
HKEY_USERS\USERNAME\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General.
There will be a key called wallpaper. Double click on it and enter the path of the file in the Value field.

Hopes this helps...

by pmutchler

I tried the suggestion and it still did not work. As soon as you restart the pc, the wallpaper is reset to none.

by pmutchler

I finally found a work around. You need to open the downloaded picture in some sort of imaging software (in my case it was Kodak Imaging) right click and tell it to set as wallpaper. I have no idea why this will work as opposed to just setting it in the display settings ... perhaps its an undocumented feature.

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