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Geek Culture / I have a question if anyone could help me

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Joey Bondage
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Posted: 24th Feb 2006 04:28
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My spanish teacher and VBall coach was having me try to fix his computer today because some kid messed with it. All the teachers kind of know I'm like a technology type guy and know more than our new IT guy whos an a**hole and doesnt do anything Anyway, I feel really bad not being able to fix it.

Heres the problem: This kid snuck on to his comp and put a somewhat... risque picture as the background. But not the desktop background, the background of when you log in. (if anyone is familiar with a large network...) Anyway if anyone could help me that'd be great. Thanks.

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The crazy
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Posted: 24th Feb 2006 07:05
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Dang. People do that to my teachers' comps too. Sorry I can't help but hopefully someone can.

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Dave J
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Posted: 24th Feb 2006 07:14
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There should be a bitmap in one of the System folders, can't remember the name of the file unfortunately. You may have to do a search on the net, or search for all the bmps in the folder and go through them all to find it.


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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 24th Feb 2006 08:57
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That happens to me when i use a BMP or something as my background under administrator mode...one specific kind of picture file will change it...but im not sure

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SirFire
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Posted: 24th Feb 2006 09:00
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Change the desktop background to any .bmp file.

If it's an XP themed login screen, you'll have trouble though b/c I think those are resources in a dll.

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1tg46
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Posted: 25th Feb 2006 04:29
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You can use ResHack (google it) to replace or extract images from Win32 dlls that the Window operating uses. Or you can use a Stardock application to change the boot screen of the Window operating system.

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Chily Dog
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Posted: 25th Feb 2006 05:30 Edited at: 25th Feb 2006 05:31
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I have seen similar things like this back in my old middle school computers. I agree with Exeat. It should just be in one of the system folders. At least that's how I remember it.
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JerBil
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Posted: 25th Feb 2006 19:47
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If you right click on the picture and select Properties
at the bottom of the context menu, that may give the
location...

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