wallpaper

[Dragon]

Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and right clicked to
save as background but I cannot find where it has gone, in the desktop in
properties it sees it has internet explorer wallpaper but when I do a search
on my pc I still cannot find it and I want to delete it. any help on where
it has stored it on my computer. I done a search for jpg and bmp on my pc
but still wasn't there

cheers dave

 

[Patrick]

Hi just a quick one guys I got a wallpaper from the net and right
clicked to save as background but I cannot find where it has gone,
in the desktop in properties it sees it has internet explorer
wallpaper but when I do a search on my pc I still cannot find it and
I want to delete it. any help on where it has stored it on my
computer. I done a search for jpg and bmp on my pc but still wasn't
there

cheers dave

I just set up a 'jpg' as a wallpaper, done a search for *.bmp, found
identical picture called Wallpaper1.bmp
Thus, as I had suspected the jpg is copied as 'Wallpaper1.bmp', it thus
appears that original 'jpg' is discarded.
Therefore if you want to recover the picture that is used on your desktop,
you need to go for the bmp picture.

The full path of the picture (bmp) is; (substitute my name (Patrick), with
yours whatever)
C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp

or search for 'Wallpaper1.bmp'

 

[Dragon]

sorry guys searched for that and know look under wallpaper or wallpaper1 any
other advise

cheers dave

 

[Patrick]

I just set up a 'jpg' as a wallpaper, done a search for *.bmp, found
identical picture called Wallpaper1.bmp
Thus, as I had suspected the jpg is copied as 'Wallpaper1.bmp', it
thus appears that original 'jpg' is discarded.
Therefore if you want to recover the picture that is used on your
desktop, you need to go for the bmp picture.

The full path of the picture (bmp) is; (substitute my name (Patrick),
with yours whatever)
C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp

or search for 'Wallpaper1.bmp'

All this appears only to work if the source was a 'JPG'. Tried a 'GIF'
(worked as wallpaper) but coudn't find any copy of it anywhere, (I'll
perhaps try renaming the source 'GIF').