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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Com'on:  Everyone Gets Random Wallpaper!
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.223648.3164@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 22:36:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1991Mar1.031115.9905@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
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>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!  ;)
>
>Come on, folks!  Let's admit Windows has a little problem here.  Don't
>be shy...
>

Are you running ScreenPeace by any chance? An option of SP is to change your
wallpaper randomly (by modifying your win.ini). This feature can be disabled
in the options menu.

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