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Picture of a Head & shoulders on my desktop?!

Anonymous
2013-09-16T20:11:32+00:00

My computer was running really slow & kept getting "Internet Exporer is not responding" message. When I closed it the usual picture on my desktop had changed to what looks like a head & shoulders (in white) & the rest of the background is all grey. The icons are there still & everything seems to be working ok- virus & spyware scans haven't picked up anything....is there a virus, or?  going around with this description?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-17T01:41:14+00:00

    Doris,

    I work with computers often that have issues similar to this and I find that it is very often caused by 'over-clicking'. When the computer is bogged down trying to process something we get impatient and try clicking on other things to do while we are waiting for the first thing to finish or to "hurry" the first thing along.

    This never works and usually only makes the problem worse by giving the already overworked or stuck task sequence more events to process. In addition, (and I think this may be what happened to you) sometimes we click the wrong things because the options were still loading when we clicked but before the computer registered the mouse action the list changed.

    It is possible to click on an item and set it as your desktop. Any item on the screen or browser can be set this way. To verify, click Start > Control Panel > Change Desktop Background (under the Appearance and Personalization category heading)

    From there change the "Picture Location" field to "Windows Desktop Backgrounds" and then pick any of the picture themes shown. Once you have selected a new theme, choose "Save Changes"

    This should have replaced your "Head and SHoulders with the selected theme.

    If not, then please post the results here so I can try to resolve the issue with you.

    Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-27T23:03:46+00:00

    Thanks Nevada Jack- I hate to admit it, but you are probably right on track re the impatience & 'over-clicking' prognosis!  (Sigh...patience grasshopper!!  :-)   Also re accidentally re-setting my desktop picture....I was in my hotmail inbox at the time and the picture that ended up on my desktop looked pretty much like the 'generic' profile picture that is by the hotmail log-out (if you haven't used a personal picture) so this makes perfect sense!   Thanks for your help!   D.

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