Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Com'on: Everyone Gets Random Wallpaper! Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 15:01:47 GMT References: <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: >OK. So I thought it was just my imagination. When I first started >with Windows3 back in June, random presentations of wallpaper was >occuring each time I launched the program. I figured, well, it's some >quirky bug with Zenith's BIOS and Windows. (Naaah. Never. :) Delete >all my .BMPs and all is well. (Who cares to give 1Mb per three pictures >anyway?) >Now, nine months later, I'm seeing postings regarding random display >of wallpaper (.BMP) files. People are coming out of the wallpapered >closet! A colleague with a BIG BLUE machine (model 70) is also >experiencing this, so now I =KNOW= there's a problem! ;) There's a shareware program called 'PAPERBOY' (at cica, I think) which does exactly what you describe. Are you sure that you don't have a call to it somewhere in your system? On the ~1900 PC's we have here (and we have one of everything, I expect) I haven't heard of anyone with this problem unless they've got PAPERBOY or something similar. Joe Morris