Can't change the desktop on one of the identities

[Arklier]

This computer runs XP Home and has 3 identities on it. One for myself,
one for my parents, and one for my brother. My dad has somehow screwed
up the desktop wallpaper on their identity. The other two work fine,
but when you try to change the wallpaper on the parents one, it keeps
the new wallpaper for about 2 seconds, then flips back to the old
image. When you turn the machine on and off it shows the correct
wallpaper but as soon as it hits the desktop, back it goes to the one
he doesn't want. My dad is somewhat infamous around here about opening
and following links in his email that he shouldn't. What's the best
way to fix the problem without doing a rollback?

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[Malke]

This computer runs XP Home and has 3 identities on it. One for myself,
one for my parents, and one for my brother. My dad has somehow screwed
up the desktop wallpaper on their identity. The other two work fine,
but when you try to change the wallpaper on the parents one, it keeps
the new wallpaper for about 2 seconds, then flips back to the old
image. When you turn the machine on and off it shows the correct
wallpaper but as soon as it hits the desktop, back it goes to the one
he doesn't want. My dad is somewhat infamous around here about opening
and following links in his email that he shouldn't. What's the best
way to fix the problem without doing a rollback?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "rollback", but the easiest thing to do
would be either 1) System Restore to the day before your dad played
around; 2) make your parents a new user account, copy over all their
data, and then delete the old user account. Of course, you should all
be practising safe computing and running current (post-2002 version
using updated definitions) antivirus software and scanning regularly
with something like Spybot S&D and Ad-aware to remove spyware in all
accounts.

Malke