Working at a Windows NT 4.0 workstation that I share with other people working other shifts. Come in tonight after a long weekend to find that when I hit alt+cntl+del to get the Windows NT Security panel (having Lock Workstation, Task Manager, etc.) to lock my workstation and go on break, my wallpaper vanishes. When I come back and unlock it, I have to go into the Properties screen (where it still shows my wallpaper is selected, but the image itself is gone), select a different image and then reselect my original image and click Okay. It never used to do this; before, it always just blanked out all my icons and displayed the wallpaper when I locked it.
Bottom line: somebody while I was gone these last few days has managed to change something in my profile to make it do this. My question: how do I fix it???
Anybody? Thanks in advance.
I’m not clear on this- your wallpaper is OK, you lock your workstation, come back to unlock it and it’s gone? Do I have that right? Or is it that when you log out (of the network) and log back in (like after a long weekend) you have lost your wallpaper. If the latter, then you are on the wrong end of a mandatory user profile policy, and there’s not much you can do about it except bitch & moan (unless you have admin rights). They do that to me here, but I get around it by logging on to the local machine instead of the domain, and manually mapping my way through all the various network drives. I still bitch & moan, too.
If you are loosing your profile information just by locking your workstation, I don’t know what could be causing that. Do you loose other settings like mouse speed, custom sounds, etc.?
Yep, you have that right. I do not log out; I simply lock the workstation, and the wallpaper disappears. I’m not losing any other settings. I think I found a workaround: I copied my wallpaper bitmap to a folder on my desktop, so that it is stored on the pc’s hard drive, rather than a shared network drive, and now it stays up like it should. But I always used to be able to store the bmp on my personal space of the shared network drive, and it would keep it on my screen. Now, it no longer does. All other aspects of my profile (to my knowledge) have stayed the same.
I’ve asked everybody around here; and if anyone has changed anything, no-one is talking. Ahh…the vagaries of shared workstations.
Well, I can’t offer any solutions but the exact same thing happens to my on NT4.0 – and, FWIW, I don’t share my machine with anyone and no one has messed with my profile settings.
Exact same thing you describe…after overnight or a weekend, I have the generic green backgorund, goto settings and it shows as being selected, if you choose soemthing else and come back to it, it’s fine.
I always assumed that was some glitch with NT and when your monitor either went to powersave or switched to the screensaver. Not that I have anything to back that up, but…
The screensaver…that reminds me: when I came back this week, there was a screensaver selected in my Properties, which I never use; and I thought this might be the culprit. But changing “Screensaver” to (None) didn’t help, either. Must be a glitch of some sort. I got it fixed, but it still bugs me. Sumbuddy’s messin’ wif sumpin’.
Good wallpaper I’ve got, too.
