Guest rogeepete Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 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 Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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 -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest rogeepete Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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 Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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 -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Elmo Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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". -- Joe =o)
Recommended Posts