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by millerb

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Some of my users are putting their own wallpaper creations onto their pc's. They look great. When they shut off and then re-boot the wallpaper has been replaced with a plain old windows wallpaper. Any ideas on how we can keep these creations as thedefault wallpaper

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by jacmari

I would need to know how they are putting on their wallpapers. Some users may say Set as Wallpaper, and that usually doesn't work very well. What works better for me is if I save the wallpaper itself, then save it on the hard drive by placing it into the folder(usually C:\Windows or WINNT.. depending on the OS) with all the wallpapers. Then when customizing my desktop, I pick out the file I want. Then I usually do a right-click on the desktop and say Update or refresh, depending on what's available.
Hope that this helped.

by millerb

thanks for the suggestions
did as you suggested - the wallpaper is in C:\Windows. went in thru the display and re-applied it. When pc when powered up today she had no wallpaper.

by tamj123

check your user and computer policy, make sure you did not put any restriction that won't allow the users to save their desktop setting. Also make sure the useraare not running on mandatory profiles (ntuser.man)

by nettek

If these are Win9x machines, try the following: Boot the computer. When you get to any logon screens, click Cancel. Set up the wallpaper. Reboot and log on as usual.

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