David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "abbymarie" <abbymarie@discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | hi
> | i seem to be having some issues with wallpaper! i used a picture as
> | a wallpaper for a while but after changing the wallpaper some few
> | months ago, the picture continues to appear just before the xp
> | welcome sign everytime my laptop starts up. any ideas?????
> | PLEASE HELP!! ironically its a picture of the corpse bride film and
> | its starting to scare me! x
>
> Ones a BMP (prior to logon) and the other a JPEG shown through Active
> Desktop (after logon).
>
> Normal.
>

I never knew the technical reason (thanks, David!) but this has been
going on since Win95. Just set your desktop wallpaper to None, Apply.
Then set your desktop wallpaper to the one you want, Apply + OK. That
should do it.

Malke
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