Wallpaper question

[Jeff]

I am helping an elderly lady setup her new PC which runs Windows 7 Home
64 bit.

She is partial to a wallpaper she had on her old XP PC. I transferred it
to a folder on her new PC and "set it as the wallpaper", but it does not
stick. Every time she does something else the desktop reverts to a plain
blue screen.

I also went to Personalize and found her wallpaper as the theme, saved
it under her name, but cannot get it to appear on the desktop.

What could be wrong? Does this image need to be in a certain format or
in a certain location for it to stay as the wallpaper? I think it is a
jpg or gif.

 

[Nil]

I am helping an elderly lady setup her new PC which runs Windows 7
Home 64 bit.

She is partial to a wallpaper she had on her old XP PC. I
transferred it to a folder on her new PC and "set it as the
wallpaper", but it does not stick. Every time she does something
else the desktop reverts to a plain blue screen.

I also went to Personalize and found her wallpaper as the theme,
saved it under her name, but cannot get it to appear on the
desktop.

What could be wrong? Does this image need to be in a certain
format or in a certain location for it to stay as the wallpaper? I
think it is a jpg or gif.

It should work they way you're doing it, I think, but try opening the
picture with Internet Explorer (you can just drag 'n' drop the picture
on an open IE window,) then right-click on the displayed picture and
choose (Set as background.) IE will copy the picture to its preferred
location and make any necessary format conversions.

 

[Jeff]

It should work they way you're doing it, I think, but try opening the
picture with Internet Explorer (you can just drag 'n' drop the picture
on an open IE window,) then right-click on the displayed picture and
choose (Set as background.) IE will copy the picture to its preferred
location and make any necessary format conversions.

I was doing it remotely using Temaviewer. Maybe that is the problem.
When I go over to her place I will do it while I am there.

Thanks for answering.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

I am helping an elderly lady setup her new PC which runs Windows 7
Home 64 bit.

She is partial to a wallpaper she had on her old XP PC. I
transferred it to a folder on her new PC and "set it as the
wallpaper", but it does not stick. Every time she does something
else the desktop reverts to a plain blue screen.

[]
picture with Internet Explorer (you can just drag 'n' drop the picture
on an open IE window,) then right-click on the displayed picture and
choose (Set as background.) IE will copy the picture to its preferred
location and make any necessary format conversions.

I was doing it remotely using Temaviewer. Maybe that is the problem.
When I go over to her place I will do it while I am there.

Thanks for answering.

What Nil suggests sounds a good way to force it to make any tweaks
necessary.

When I've used TeamViewer, I've always seen the remote system with a
black background, whatever that system normally has (e. g. plain blue or
a picture).

 

[Ken Springer]

When I've used TeamViewer, I've always seen the remote system with a
black background, whatever that system normally has (e. g. plain blue or
a picture).

Also my experience.

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Ken

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Thunderbird 10.0.2
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[Jeff]

alt.windows7.general:

I am helping an elderly lady setup her new PC which runs Windows 7
Home 64 bit.

She is partial to a wallpaper she had on her old XP PC. I
transferred it to a folder on her new PC and "set it as the
wallpaper", but it does not stick. Every time she does something
else the desktop reverts to a plain blue screen. []
picture with Internet Explorer (you can just drag 'n' drop the picture
on an open IE window,) then right-click on the displayed picture and
choose (Set as background.) IE will copy the picture to its preferred
location and make any necessary format conversions.

I was doing it remotely using Temaviewer. Maybe that is the problem.
When I go over to her place I will do it while I am there.

Thanks for answering.

What Nil suggests sounds a good way to force it to make any tweaks
necessary.

When I've used TeamViewer, I've always seen the remote system with a
black background, whatever that system normally has (e. g. plain blue or
a picture).

Aha. That must be it. Thanks.