wallpaper

[Dragon]

Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and right clicked to
save as background but I cannot find where it has gone, in the desktop in
properties it sees it has internet explorer wallpaper but when I do a search
on my pc I still cannot find it and I want to delete it. any help on where
it has stored it on my computer. I done a search for jpg and bmp on my pc
but still wasn't there

cheers dave

[Patrick]

Dragon wrote:
> Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and right
> clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it has gone,
> in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet explorer
> wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still cannot find it and
> I want to delete it. any help on where it has stored it on my
> computer. I done a search for jpg and bmp on my pc but still wasn't
> there
>
> cheers dave

I just set up a 'jpg' as a wallpaper, done a search for *.bmp, found
identical picture called Wallpaper1.bmp
Thus, as I had suspected the jpg is copied as 'Wallpaper1.bmp', it thus
appears that original 'jpg' is discarded.
Therefore if you want to recover the picture that is used on your desktop,
you need to go for the bmp picture.

The full path of the picture (bmp) is; (substitute my name (Patrick), with
yours whatever)
C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp

or search for 'Wallpaper1.bmp'

[Ally]

"Dragon" > wrote:

> Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and
> right clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it
> has gone, in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet
> explorer wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still
> cannot find it

(Just a guess, but maybe that's because Application Data folders are
hidden? Use the extended search options to do a proper search.)

> and I want to delete it. any help on where it
> has stored it on my computer.

Try: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer
Wallpaper.bmp

If you're not familiar with environment variables, that's probably

C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name-here\Application Data
\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp

hope that helped,
~Ally

--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Dragon]

sorry guys searched for that and know look under wallpaper or wallpaper1 any
other advise

cheers dave

"Ally" > wrote in message
4...
> "Dragon" > wrote:
>
> > Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and
> > right clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it
> > has gone, in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet
> > explorer wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still
> > cannot find it
>
> (Just a guess, but maybe that's because Application Data folders are
> hidden? Use the extended search options to do a proper search.)
>
> > and I want to delete it. any help on where it
> > has stored it on my computer.
>
> Try: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer
> Wallpaper.bmp
>
> If you're not familiar with environment variables, that's probably
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name-here\Application Data
> \Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp
>
> hope that helped,
> ~Ally
>
> --
> Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Dragon]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:138255 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:706294 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:347017

sorry all done

cheers for the advise dave

"Ally" > wrote in message
4...
> "Dragon" > wrote:
>
> > Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and
> > right clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it
> > has gone, in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet
> > explorer wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still
> > cannot find it
>
> (Just a guess, but maybe that's because Application Data folders are
> hidden? Use the extended search options to do a proper search.)
>
> > and I want to delete it. any help on where it
> > has stored it on my computer.
>
> Try: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer
> Wallpaper.bmp
>
> If you're not familiar with environment variables, that's probably
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name-here\Application Data
> \Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp
>
> hope that helped,
> ~Ally
>
> --
> Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Maureen Goldman]

>"Dragon" > wrote:
>sorry guys searched for that and know look under wallpaper or wallpaper1 any
>other advise

Did you set search to look for subfolders?

My own question on this topic: Using the answers here I just located a
photo that I set recently as a desktop image via the right-click
option. Was taken aback at the size. Isn't 6.5M kind of huge?

[Larry Maietta]

Some times, you can find wallpaper is installed in, C:\windows.
But you need to have the all hidden files operating.
Hope this helps.

--
Sincerely
Larry Maietta

[Patrick]

Patrick wrote:
> Dragon wrote:
>> Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and right
>> clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it has gone,
>> in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet explorer
>> wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still cannot find it and
>> I want to delete it. any help on where it has stored it on my
>> computer. I done a search for jpg and bmp on my pc but still wasn't
>> there
>>
>> cheers dave
>
> I just set up a 'jpg' as a wallpaper, done a search for *.bmp, found
> identical picture called Wallpaper1.bmp
> Thus, as I had suspected the jpg is copied as 'Wallpaper1.bmp', it
> thus appears that original 'jpg' is discarded.
> Therefore if you want to recover the picture that is used on your
> desktop, you need to go for the bmp picture.
>
> The full path of the picture (bmp) is; (substitute my name (Patrick),
> with yours whatever)
> C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp
>
> or search for 'Wallpaper1.bmp'

All this appears only to work if the source was a 'JPG'. Tried a 'GIF'
(worked as wallpaper) but coudn't find any copy of it anywhere, (I'll
perhaps try renaming the source 'GIF').