Changing Desktop background

[Barry Howard]

I've a Packard Bell computer and I want to change the
desktop background away from a plain black background to
a picture, such as Windows 'Azul'

I can do this easily and the new background will remain
until I shut down. When I reboot, when the decktop icons
reform, the Azul picture appears but promptly disappears
after four of five seconds. I'm left again with the plain
black background.

I mention that the computer has been like this since new
last November. I've been in touch with PACKARD BELL, but
they say the only answer is to start again with a hard
drive format and reload everything. As I've had to do
this four times already, I don't want to go through that
again.

Can anybody help? I don't have the Windows CD (only the
user made CDs)

With regards, barry howard

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

It sounds like Active Desktop is kind of messed up; what happens when you
set your background to a bitmap file (example: "Bliss")? Does it show up?

Or, what happens when you right-click the desktop, go to Arrange Icons by,
and uncheck "Show Desktop Icons"?

There may also be some third-party program running at startup that could be
confusing things - you may want to launch "msconfig" to try disabling any
suspicious looking programs running at startup.

--
Please reply in newsgroup.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"Barry Howard" > wrote in message
...
> I've a Packard Bell computer and I want to change the
> desktop background away from a plain black background to
> a picture, such as Windows 'Azul'
>
> I can do this easily and the new background will remain
> until I shut down. When I reboot, when the decktop icons
> reform, the Azul picture appears but promptly disappears
> after four of five seconds. I'm left again with the plain
> black background.
>
> I mention that the computer has been like this since new
> last November. I've been in touch with PACKARD BELL, but
> they say the only answer is to start again with a hard
> drive format and reload everything. As I've had to do
> this four times already, I don't want to go through that
> again.
>
> Can anybody help? I don't have the Windows CD (only the
> user made CDs)
>
> With regards, barry howard