HELP PLEASE! WIERD DESKTOP BACKGROUND BEHAVIOR
Hi,
Occasionaly when I shutdown, pull the power plug, and restart my wallpaper changes itself to something which i hadn't used for a long time?!?!
Strangely this normaly only happend when I move my computer around (something i do a lot) and especially happens when I use differant monitors (even if they are very similar specs).
Why? How can I stop this?
I know my stuff about Macs and OSX and have tried all the obvious repair/checking solutions.
Hello?? Someone must know something??
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Hello there!
I have a brand new Dell computer from Best Buy. With my last computer (Gateway), I was able to set up an automatic screen saver of a slideshow of pictures if my computer was not used for a certain amount of minutes.
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HELP!jjeahall
I saw your post and wanted to comment. I'm not an expert on these types of situations but did some digging around and found the following at Tips4PC.com.... read below
"There are two types of computer black screens that can appear in Windows. One where the computer will not boot up but you have a beep sequence sounding to let you know what the problem could be, and the other has nothing at all. No beeps, no cursor, no logo screen, and no choice to boot to safe mode or access the bios.
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Link
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Starting System Recovery from system startup
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2
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peripheral devices from the computer except the monitor, the keyboard, and the
mouse.
3
Press the On button to turn on the computer.
4
During the startup, do the following to enter the Recovery Manager program:
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keyboard. (You have only a few seconds to press the F11 key before the normal
startup process continues.)
5
The computer starts the Recovery Manager program; wait for the onscreen instructions
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6
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I am an HP employee.
Regards,
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Thanks!Hi all,
Welcome to the Discussions!!
I had a similar issue a while back, which from memory was caused by me trying out the automatic backgrounds that change every few minutes or so. I managed to cure it by simply repairing permissions and then restarting.
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james
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