2 Background images show on boot 1

[nosremark]

I'm almost sorry to post this, it should be easy; On XP boot I have one background image, after a couple of seconds a second background image shows up. The second image is the one that was last set, I cannot figure out why the first is showing up. They are both .jpeg files and I do not have my desktop set to a Web page.

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

Open notepad and copy/paste the below as NO_Wallpaper.reg

******* begin copy/paste below this line
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]

"PaintDesktopVersion"=dword:00000000
"Pattern"="(None)"
"PowerOffActive"="0"
"PowerOffTimeOut"="0"
"ScreenSaverIsSecure"="0"
"ScreenSaveTimeOut"="600"
"ScreenSaveActive"="1"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="logon.scr"
"TileWallpaper"="0"
"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9e,3e,03,80
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="20000"
"Wallpaper"="(None)"
"WallpaperStyle"="0"
"OriginalWallpaper"=""
"WheelScrollLines"="3"

********** end copy/paste above this line

Double-click the saved file to merge with your registry and restart to test.

 

[nosremark]

Tried it, but had the same result. Do I have to change anything in the OriginalWallpaper reg key?

 

[bcastner]

What you are seeing is the two wallpapers, one for the situation in which no one is logged on, the other for a logon.

It is possible there is a different setting for background color.

Start, Run, regedit
Go to:
HKEY USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors.
Background should be 0 78 152

 

[nosremark]

It's the same, also forgot to mention that this problem didn't occur until I installed ATI's Hydravision. I'll try uninstalling it and see if it has any effect.

 

[bcastner]

One Possibility: There is set a wallpaper that doesn't use Active Desktop and one that does. Active Desktop replaces the default desktop.

Right-click an empty area of the desktop, properties, Desktop tab, select desired background to None and
click on apply button two times. (Yes, twice). Apply and exit the Display properties window. Then go back and reset once your desired desktop background.

 

[nosremark]

I tried the Apply method with no result, I deleted the .jpeg that was showing first. This prevented it from showing up on boot, now there is only one background image.

Thanks for the help