How do you delete backgrounds for desktop?

[Guest Downhome]

A, *ahem*, picture I don't want there as a choice of a background has been placed there, and I want it gone. Thank ye, fools.

[Guest bravesfan]

Is it entitled "Internet Explorer Wallpaper"?

 

If so, first basic suggestion is, use your web browser and "Save as desktop background" a new entirely "clean" picture. It should save that new picture over it.

 

If that doesn't work, post a reply here.

 

EDIT: All of the optioned pictures should be in the Windows directory. Click on your main drive ("C", for most people), then click on the folder titled "WINDOWS". All of the background files should be there. Find yours and delete it.

[Guest Downhome]

Is it entitled "Internet Explorer Wallpaper"?

 

If so, first basic suggestion is, use your web browser and "Save as desktop background" a new entirely "clean" picture. It should save that new picture over it.

 

If that doesn't work, post a reply here.

 

EDIT: All of the optioned pictures should be in the Windows directory. Click on your main drive ("C", for most people), then click on the folder titled "WINDOWS". All of the background files should be there. Find yours and delete it.

The first one, I don't understand what you mean. I just know that I right click on desk top, go to properties, and then click the desktop tab. Then it says background, and has a list of pictures, most of which are ones that came on the computer. I don't know how this other one got on that list, so I'm confused.

 

I tried to go to my Windows folder, but the only one I saw, I saw nothing that said backgrounds in it at all.

[Guest DrTom]

If you're running WinXP, the pictures you can choose for your wallpaper are in the My Pictures folder, a subfolder of My Documents. In the 9X releases of Windows, they're in the c:\windows folder, and looking for common picture extensions (usually .bmp, but if you added them, it could be .jpg or .gif) should find them.

[Guest The Electrifyer]

Go into your Windows folder, sort by type and every .BMP file there usually is included in your backgrounds in your display properties. There should be a file called Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp or something like that which may be your "picture". Also, the files in your folder C:\\My Documents\My Pictures are also included in your backgrounds, so the pic your looking for could be in there.

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

I just know that I right click on desk top, go to properties, and then click the desktop tab. Then it says background, and has a list of pictures, most of which are ones that came on the computer. I don't know how this other one got on that list, so I'm confused.

I don't know which Windows you are using, but on mine, you can see a thumbnail of the would be background whilst selecting one, once you find it, right click and delete.

[Guest razazteca]

for Win98SE just right click mouse

 

Display Properties - Background (tab)

 

Browse folder with you favorite pictures, choose picture, then click apply I use jpgs of movie posters from newsgroups.

 

it will then ask to enable Active Desktop just say yes