Desktop Picture

One question? I like changing my desktop pictures. Instead of the Aurora Safari Desktop Picture, I selected something from Webshots. I want to see this picture at startup instead of the Aurora. How do I change this? Please just one e-mail is sufficient.

Here are the instructions you requested:
_10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard_
• Go to Your Hard Drive > System > Library > CoreServices. You’ll find DefaultDesktop.jpg; this is the startup image.
• Drag it to your desktop (or other folder) to save it in case you ever want to put it back.
• Find the image you want to replace it with and rename it DefaultDesktop.jpg (the new image must be a JPG).
• Drag your new DefaultDesktop.jpg into the CoreServices folder.
Regards,
Roger

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