XP Home wallpaper

My daughter created a collage of pictures in Paint and chose it for her desktop background or wallpaper. Now we cannot change it. It appears as if the background is being changed but the collage is always there. When she logs off the collage collapses and we see the background we changed to for a second, and then it collapses. I see the collage in the registry in a couple of places but am leery to do anything there without explicit directions.

 

Right click on the desktop>properties>desktop tab. Click the customize desktop button and then the web tab. If there's anything in the box under "web pages" uncheck it. I'd also uncheck the box below that next to the line that says lock web items on desktop if it's currently checked.

 

Thanks, that was it. A co-working thought the solution was easy but he couldn't remember what it was. There must be some way to set this without going to the properties pop up. Maybe by right clicking on the image and selecting save as desktop background? Or being in the web while doing something like this?

 

I'm not really sure how this happens. I think that often times it occurs because of the way people set pics as wallpaper when using Internet Explorer. If you're using Internet Explorer to view the picture and then right click on the pic you're given two options in the menu for setting it as wallpaper. One is "set as background" which will set the picture as your desktop wallpaper but you won't run into the trouble you ran into here when you try to change it. The other menu entry says "set as desktop item ". If you select that one, it gets placed on your desktop as a web item and would cause the problem you ran into.

If she used paint to set the pic as wallpaper I'm not really sure what happened. I can't recreate the problem myself using paint so I really have no idea at all. Anyway, glad to hear that was the problem and thanks for posting back to let us know.