I just spent 24hrs picking a desktop image after a forced reinstall of every piece of software I use.
It used to be that I had a picture of the
Assasin character from
Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo 2 game. It was actually from the
Battle.net1 website and I had modified it a little bit and organised my
icons around it. As I said I
used to have it as my desktop image.
The forced
reinstall was after a long running battle with various complaints my
system threw at me, and as such, it spent a lot of time in a
computer store in a busy local
shopping centre. I remembered to hide the links to the various sections of my harddrive that I wouldn't want easy public access to, I remembered to remove the cd I would normally have left in the drive and I even remembered to disconnect the
T-piece and the cable from my
DVD decoder card to my
soundcard.. But I didn't remove the desktop image of the
half-naked assasin with the flaming
wristblades.
The cheeky grin on the shop assistant show was the first sign that something was up when I went back later that day..
"People kept asking us about your background picture, everyone wanted to know where to get it."
Beware the Perils of Picking a Desktop Image
1. http://www.battle.net/images/battle/diablo2exp/images/ass/assassinfull.jpg