I've got three machines, all running XP. For some reason, one of them isn't accepting a JPG file as the desktop wallpaper, and I have run out of things to try to do to figure out why. It only displays BMP files, like Windows used to do in the bad old days. As far as graphics settings are concerned, they're all configured pretty much identically -- I let ACDSee take most all of the graphics format associations, rather than that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ... but that's still loaded in the systems because it's needed to generate thumbnail views in dialog boxes. Anyway, I don't even know where to look for a source of this bizarre trouble. Obviously the machines have different graphics hardware, but the misbehaving machine isn't even the oldest one -- it's got plenty of RAM and CPU speed and a decent ATI card, so I am not inclined to think it's hardware related. I don't know if this has been going on since the XP installation or not, to be honest I just never noticed it before. I don't change wallpapers very often. I realize this is mighty vague, but I really don't know what else to specify that might be a factor here- I'm flummoxed. If anyone has any familiarity with this problem, or knows of something else I can check on the 'afflicted' machine, I'd sure love to hear it. These silly little problems take up an inordinate amount of my time, I hate to just let them sit there without trying to fix them. Leeeny Lehner 1/25 1959est PCSOFT's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>