backgrounds

My desktop backgrounds file disappeared........does anyone know the name so
I can check to see if it's still there? I had a nice picture but now it is
blank.

ha wrote:
> My desktop backgrounds file disappeared........does anyone know the name
> so I can check to see if it's still there? I had a nice picture but now
> it is blank.


Er.... How could we possibly know the name of the file that *you*
chose as your desktop background?

Try this: right-click a blank area of the Desktop, Select Properties >
Desktop (iirc), and see it your chosen picture is amoung the options listed.

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Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management, Bruce
Chambers said:

> ha wrote:
> > My desktop backgrounds file disappeared........does anyone know the name
> > so I can check to see if it's still there? I had a nice picture but now
> > it is blank.
>
>
> Er.... How could we possibly know the name of the file that *you*
> chose as your desktop background?
>
> Try this: right-click a blank area of the Desktop, Select Properties >
> Desktop (iirc), and see it your chosen picture is amoung the options listed.

Right-click on the Desktop and select Personalize \ Desktop Background.

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Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management, Bruce
> Chambers said:
>
>> ha wrote:
>>> My desktop backgrounds file disappeared........does anyone know the name
>>> so I can check to see if it's still there? I had a nice picture but now
>>> it is blank.
>>
>> Er.... How could we possibly know the name of the file that *you*
>> chose as your desktop background?
>>
>> Try this: right-click a blank area of the Desktop, Select Properties >
>> Desktop (iirc), and see it your chosen picture is amoung the options listed.
>
> Right-click on the Desktop and select Personalize \ Desktop Background.
>


You're right. I was thinking WinXP.

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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot