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Heather doesn’t lock her computer when she walks away. Don’t be like Heather.
It sounds far more likely to me that she right-clicked on some image file and picked “Set as desktop background”.
Happened to me previously several times. I find it crazy to even have this option in the context menu.
As I wrote that comment I wondered: “does Windows still have that option in the context menu?” I’m rarely on Windows so can’t quickly check.
My memory says that it’s even an option when right-clicking an image on the web. I decided to ignore that memory - surely that can’t still be a thing! …Right?
Edit: oh crap, it’s actually an option on Firefox on Linux Mint. Damn, that’s crazy. Then it’s gotta be there on Windows too. Much easier to imagine it happening accidentally on the web than an image file on PC.
Just checked, it’s there on Firefox on Windows, too. Also, Windows itself has a “Send To…” item on the right click menu for images, and one of the options in the submenu below that is “Mail Recipient”. (Chrome has the possibly-even-more-useless “Generate QR code for this image” but I don’t see an “e-mail this image” option in Chrome on Windows.)
It’s up there with “Send image as email” which I suspect like 5 people have used in the last 20 years
3 of them accidentally.
Leave Heather alone. There’s nothing wrong with this desktop background. Please refrain from remote connecting to her computer in the future.
Is that whats implied here? I thought Heather just went to her Boss to complain and the Boss called IT…
The bar at the top shows up in remote desktop connections
bottom picture could be IT POV checking what’s wrong
This is reminiscent of an absolute classic video.
If you are not familiar with a story about penis-arranged icons, I recommend giving it a watch.
If you haven’t, please watch the original, full video! It’s hilarious from beginning to end…
I have - I think seventeen years ago, in fact. I do remember enjoying it, but I missed a lot (I was barely into my IT career and didn’t even know what Boing Boing was, for example). Should probably rewatch it. Thank you for the link.
I should have anticipated that this would exist.
I wonder how that will work on my other system with just the recycle bin and nothing else on the desktop
What the hell! 😁
Well, there is a longer version of the video that provides some context. It seems the caller is either trying to access or host a website (possibly both) and it has gone down, so they called tech support.
The icon arrangement was apparently done spitefully to the remote desktop by the person the caller replaced and the caller simply became accustomed to it.
Beyond that, I cannot resolve your query.
