A coworker was editing a photo for a publication. It’s nothing scandalous. However, whenever she boots up the computer she was working on, that image shows up for about 1-2 seconds while the computer finishes booting up. Then it displays the previously selected background image.
This is a Windows 2000 machine.
She told me what the file was called and we deleted all those images, but the brief unwanted photo still keeps popping up when we restart the system or log off and log back on to the network.
Sounds to me like y’all have Active Desktop enabled, with your preferred wallpaper, and the unwanted image is set as the “regular” wallpaper. This can happen accidentally with Windows useful one-click “Set this image as wallpaper” feature. Bleargh.
Deleting the file won’t fix it, because it copies it to a system file.
If this is what’s going on, you fix it like this:
Right click your desktop, and select “properties.”
The “background” tab of the display properties window will pop up.
Scroll to the top of the list of pictures and select “none.”