| I have had quite a few customers who lost or | | | | you have to change some settings. Since "Local |
| deleted the original picture for their wallpaper. | | | | Settings" and all of its subfolders, is kind of a |
| Windows caches and stores the picture in a | | | | system folder, you most probably have it hidden |
| specific location. It converts it into .bmp format | | | | by default. Open up Windows Explorer, click on |
| (which is the native picture format for the | | | | Tools, Folder Options, View, tick "Show Hidden |
| Windows operating system) and puts it into | | | | Files and Folders", Untick "Hide Protected |
| C_Documents and Settings_username_Local | | | | Operating System Files. Now you can browse |
| Settings_Application Data_Microsoft. | | | | your way to the wallpaper file. |
| Replace "username" with the account name you | | | | Some people might have their operating system |
| are logged into, copy the whole path (replace the | | | | on a different partition or a different hard drive. In |
| underscore with backslash), paste it into Windows | | | | this case you will need to browse the partition or |
| Explorer and hit "Enter". You will land up in a folder | | | | hard disk that contains the system files, that is, |
| where you will see a file called "wallpaper1.bmp". | | | | replace "C" with whatever drive letter your |
| This is the actual location and actual file that | | | | operating system is on and you should be fine. As |
| displays on your desktop. | | | | you can see it is not rocket science but it is |
| Another way is just to browse to the folder but | | | | tricky if you haven't dealt with this. |