I have a Windows NT SP6a machine, Compaq Deskpro PIII 128MB RAM and I don't know why it won't always keep my background or wallpaper. I log in and I see my wallpaper, I put my username on it and painted it black. Very basic, I did it in paint brush. I have it in the appropriate location in the Winnt subfolder and it is a bmp file or Bit Map file extension. It is a small file, under the 8.3 DOS requirements. I will log on, I see my wallpaper for a brief second and then I get the default misty blue green type wallpaper that Microsoft has. I right click and I go to properties on the desktop. I click on my wallpaper, which is defaulted as the selection, I have to highlight another wallpaper and then select mine, and NO problems. I do this every so often. I thought it was something with Active Desktop, but I don't have that installed. I don't have Webshots installed either. I thought maybe it was something like that. I am the local administrator and a domain administrator. I am not sure what to do. I don't know who to explain this to my co workers who rely on me for help and ask silly questions that I want to help them with but unforunately they don't talk about this problem in the MCSE tests.

This could be a dumb question but here it goes....do you have a local or roaming profile set up? It sounds like you are defaulting to another profile.

If that doesn't help, check the post a couple posts down the list about the person who can't get rid of wallpaper... sounds like the problem is similar enough that the solution might work the same way.

Crap, sorry, didn't realize I'm in the NT forum this time LOL I'll copy and paste the messege I'm referring to =) Go to My Computer -> C: -> Win98 and scroll down to WIN.INI Open this, and you should see under the DESKTOP section: Wallpaper= TileWallpaper= WallpaperStyle= YOu will probably recognize one of these as the offending pic.. just replace it with a zero, save, and when you reboot, you should not see it anymore =) ***this was written for a WIN9X workstation, so you might need to make appropriate adjustments for NT =)*** -Dave C