It took me a minute to figure out that I also had to go back into desktop properties and reset my wallpaper to what was there before.
My vote is for an option that says “Do you want wallpaper? yes/hell no” Basically a master control button to turn it off all the way… nice and simple… default to off. (besides, i can’t see my desktop wallpaper on a regular day, the feature is mainly useless, and it clashes with my icon packager, i’m all about matching…)
Ok, I thought I had disabled it, but when I rebooted, the wallpaper is back, but all the boxes mentioned were unchecked, and never update in the dropdown menu on the wallpaper section. I’m using the latest beta from the home page, I installed it yesterday (clean install, uninstalled old version first due to problems) Is there something I’m missing?
Did you check all 3 boxes, click on Ok then uncheck them and Ok again?
I seemed to remember something where I also shutdown WW then restarted to ensure the option was permanently set but I don’t remember what I did it for, or even if it was necessary. But it did work. [:)]
So this time I went through and selected all of the options to update uallpaper.
Hit ok.
opened up the options again, and disabled all three of the wallpaper options.
hit ok.
Went to the desktop and changed my wallpaper back to what it used to be again,
and rebooted, though not right away.
but now that I have rebooted, the wallpaper is back. Its not static, it says feb 4th. I really would like to get rid of the wallpaper, its the one feature of weather watcher i don’t like, and otherwise its a really nifty program i’ve had it for a while ever since I had too many problems with weatherbug.
I tried all the steps again, and this time rebooted right away. I did notice this time that my wallpaper was there as I selected, but within a minute or so the weather watcher wallpaper replaced it. Now, what is odd is that the wallpaper updates, but all three boxes/dropdown to update it are disabled.
There were no maps in the history under the maps tab.
Should I consider reverting to an older version? Or am I missing something…
PS… it only seems to come back after I reboot… otherwise, it stays away until I reboot, and then will happily update until I change my wallpaper in windows.
The settings are obviously stored in the Registry and it would seem that your Registry is either getting restored for some reason or isn’t getting updated with WW changes until WW is shutdown.
Could you try what your did previously but add a reboot to the process? ie turn the 3 settings on, OK, close down WW, reboot. Upon rebooting, turn the 3 settings off, OK, close down WW, reboot.
Ok… this is getting to be a little too much just to turn this off. I have tried the last suggestion by EdP… But after a few minutes of rebooting, the wallpaper reappears even though no options to update the wallpaper are checked/selected. I do believe the wallpaper likes me. But I think I will either revert to a previous version or hope wallpaper is easier to turn off with the next update. If anyone is interested in system info, i am happy to oblidge, but I am quite finishes with checking, unchecking, rebooting, and add my fervent wish to a simple one click on/off option for this feature in some future version. Thanks for your help so far, and patience.