Desk Top

[Guest rogeepete]

A friend has accidentally put a photo on to her desktop. It came from a

program that she has called Picasa. How do we get rid of this from her

desktop?

 

Thanks

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Roger

[Guest Malke]

Re: Desk Top

 

rogeepete wrote:

> A friend has accidentally put a photo on to her desktop. It came from a

> program that she has called Picasa. How do we get rid of this from her

> desktop?

>

> Thanks

 

Picasa is an image management program that is from Google. It is quite

good. To change the picture on her Desktop, she should right-click on an

empty area of the Desktop. On the little menu that appears, she should

left-click on Properties. This will open the Display applet. You can

also get to the Display applet by going to Control Panel.

 

Once in the Display applet, you will see where you can change the

Desktop picture.

 

 

Malke

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[Guest rogeepete]

RE: Desk Top

 

Thanks for your help. Once in Control Panel and Displays, I see her unwanted

photo displayed among the list shown.

 

But from there, how do I delete the photo?

 

Thanks

 

-

Roger

 

 

"rogeepete" wrote:

> A friend has accidentally put a photo on to her desktop. It came from a

> program that she has called Picasa. How do we get rid of this from her

> desktop?

>

> Thanks

> --

> Roger

[Guest Malke]

Re: Desk Top

 

rogeepete wrote:

> Thanks for your help. Once in Control Panel and Displays, I see her unwanted

> photo displayed among the list shown.

>

> But from there, how do I delete the photo?

 

Windows XP fetches image files from the following paths:

 

BMP Files from C:\WINDOWS

 

BMP, JPG, GIF, JPE, DIB, PNG, HTM files from the following locations:

 

C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper

C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\My Documents\My Pictures [& ALL

THE SUB-FOLDERS]

C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\Application

Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes [*** & ALL THE SUB-FOLDERS ***]

 

Your friend probably has the picture in her My Pictures folder. Move the

picture from My Pictures to another location in her My Documents folder

and it will no longer appear in the list for Desktop backgrounds in the

Display applet. She can make a new folder in My Documents called

"photos" or "pictures" or the like if she wants.

 

 

Malke

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[Guest Elmo]

Re: Desk Top

 

rogeepete wrote:

> Thanks for your help. Once in Control Panel and Displays, I see her unwanted

> photo displayed among the list shown.

>

> But from there, how do I delete the photo?

>

> Thanks

>

> -

> Roger

>

>

> "rogeepete" wrote:

>

>> A friend has accidentally put a photo on to her desktop. It came from a

>> program that she has called Picasa. How do we get rid of this from her

>> desktop?

>>

>> Thanks

 

You select a different background there. To delete the photo, locate it

and delete from Explorer. Or you can use Windows Search. Looking in

the Backgrounds available. See the name of the current background, and

search by that name.

 

Now it's possible that she'll have to run Picasa and make a change there

if its software is locking out other background changes. You might go

to the Picasa support pages and or use Picasa Help to see how to remove

its background.

 

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=15300&query=background&topic=&type=

 

The above link suggests she might have an option under the "Create"

menu, next the "File".

 

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Joe =o)