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From: boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Background image in Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991May27.125205.12076@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 12:52:05 GMT
Sender: boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone)
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Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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I have a "new user" kind of question.  I have been using Windows 3.0 for 
about a week, and every time I start windows it comes up with a different
background .BMP image.  Now, according to the manuals I have read, all I
need to do to specify which .BMP I want to use for my background is to 
put a line in the WIN.INI file that says: wallpaper=chess.BMP (for instance).

Well, I have done that, but it does not seem to work.  Windows still picks
a .BMP at random.  I have noticed that when I quit windows and look at the
WIN.INI file, the line wallpaper=X has been changed somehow by Windows
itself.

Is there some setting somewhere that tells Windows to pick a .BMP at random
and then write that name to the WIN.INI on exit?


Thanks in advance,

Roggie Boone
boone@athena.cs.uga.edu