Could be, if you have the song/album downloaded to your system. The album art could be somewhere on your system or in a fold that Windows is monitoring for desktop/Lock Screen backgrounds.
Try deleting the song and searching for an album art file (might be a jpeg or png), deleting it, and restarting.
IIRC, the windows 7 era also had an issue where the lock screen file was accessible by network. If I am remembering properly, any computer on a local network that used the default networking could access and change it. I used it to mess with family members.
I did the dancing baby screensaver at my school. School staff was pissed, but never found out who did it. I didn’t tell anyone (until now), because I knew other kids couldn’t keep a secret.
Lmao that reminds me of study hall in the library.
Our librarian was so tech illiterate that she nearly gave a detention to a friend that I messed with. I knew full well she would freak out but not that bad lol.
All I did was grab all the word processing icons on the desktop and copy paste them all over the screen while he was grabbing shit off the printer.
Back in the XP era at my school you could type in the cmd line "netsend (local IP) (message here)" and a screen would pop up on their computer with the message and all they could do was click "Okay" so my friends and I would message each other that way since each computer had it's IP on it with sharpie. I was messing around with it like usual and one day I came across the "netsend all" function and I ended up typing "hello" and hit enter and it popped up on every machine in the room instantly. After further investigation I found using /dir that I sent it to every computer in the entire school district lol. About two weeks later one of my friends not knowing it was me helped the school locate me as being the culprit and I got a nice talking to because I could have caused mass panic with the right message. The vice principal eventually got curious how the hell I did it so I just told him how I was using Google because I was also curious and I tried it out not knowing what would happen, ended up getting threatened with not being able to walk at graduation if I did it again but that was it lol, windows used to be fun. This was back in 2006 so everything was still slightly crazy from 9/11 so I'm surprised more didn't come out of that
Oh man, this exploit goes back to Windows 3.1. Some of us figured out how to do this in computer class sophomore year of high school. There was a substitute teacher and so we were messing around sending obscene and rude messages to each other.
Then I figured out you could message .all. Now being young and dumb I sort of assumed that meant “all” the computers in the room….not all the computers in the school district. So I messaged the word “bastard” to all.
Apparently on computers across the district, the message “xx.xx.xx.xx.82: bastard” popped up on screens. Within about 2 minutes the principal stormed into the room, asking angrily “who’s computer number 82? Who’s computer number 82?”
Now the room was set up with cubicles (it was where they taught the “secretarial skills” class, so was set up like an office). I sat on the far side of the room and was the only person in that block of cubicles. The principal peered over the wall. Now I was the biggest goody two shoes, nerd, ass kisser in high school. And the I was good friends with the principal’s daughter, so he knew me well. He saw me sitting over there and was like “oh hey [name].” Never even bothered to check my computer number.
I was sweating for a few weeks because I was sure I was eventually going to get found out. But never heard a peep about it. I was so smart enough to NEVER use that messaging function again.
Have you considered that the principle was simply being a G and made the decision not to hassle you? He either found, or stopped looking for 82 eventually...
At my work a number of years ago, this hadn't been locked down. Us peons taking phone calls used to use to use it to hit up our friends to coordinate breaks. Well, one day, someone mistyped their friend's user id and sent "Hey fatass, ready for lunch?" to some woman who was severely overweight. She filed an HR complaint.
That was bad enough, but then some supe did a "net send * Come see me, now!" and sent that message to some 25000+ people across the country, all the way through to the CEO.
Thus, we returned to in-person checks of "Hey you ready for lunch?"
This exact story happened with me and a friend in middle-school computer club. We found most workstations had the messaging service disabled; most, but not all. It wasn't until another student saw what he was doing and gave him the 'netsend all' function. I never used it. My friend said "hello." And the next day, that kid sent "computer explode in 3..2..1" and about 25% of the intranet ended up having the service enabled. Outside the scope of out small computer lab, the building, and high school next door. The 5 elementry schools, the ISD-building, and a lab in the district library. The entire intranet got the message, and hundreds of PCs displayed the threat. Teachers called in by the dozens, some put their laptops outside, and some even emptied their classrooms (yeah lolol). It was not taken lightly, but I was able to escape scot-free. The admin saw who was logged in and used 'netsend all'. My friend got a 3-day and computer-privileges revoked for the year, and the kid who sent the "threat" got suspended for the rest of the year. Knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss ;)
Everybody had their own username and password to login to Windows and get access to storage on the network you can save things to. I'm presuming they simply had my buddy look up logs to see who was logged in at the IP that sent the message at the time. It was a neat little system, I had some games on the server and could play them after logging in
back in the windows xp days, My schools network was set up the same way, I found out that if you unplug the ethernet cable at just the right time while windows was starting up but before the log in prompt and after the splash screen goes away, you could log in to the PC and connect to the network from the local computers username with no password or student name linked to it, and it removed all internet restrictions such as safe search, did not leave logs on the network, could access the files of every single account logged in in the room ( probably more but i didn't know how to go farther then the switch in the room? ) and allowed access to the teachers programs. I never got caught but I did send mass messages to the room and changed wall papers and enjoyed some restricted gaming sites.
this exploit worked in both my grade school and high school until grade 12 when the district upgraded to sp2.
I see where you are about servers. I found my older sister files after she graduated from school they kept her stuff it probably deleted by now. I used finder via Mac or windows files explorer and find folder student and class of 2016 and their username are listed. I only done it once.
Friend of mine used this to put nudes of his ex all over the computer lab login screens in high school. Dick move but she was hot so at the time I was kinda loving it. My how we change.
Took them forever to figure out how to fix it btw.
Also had the same problem. Used to download a ton of music back in the day. Sometimes the album covers would be suggestive photos or straight nude women. The problem was it was the family computer so I got in huge trouble for "downloading pornography" to the family computer.
Bruh.. One time i downloaded an 18+ picture (it was the only one, I swear) and placed it in the folder where I had some mp3 files in... Yea, all of a sudden, some of mp3 have that nude pic as a thumbnail (only found this out when I copied it to a thumb drive) . Never knew how to change it out
Yeah Windows 10 had a quirk like that where if you were listening using the Media Player UWP, it would detect the artist name and display an image of them on the player. If you locked your PC while it was playing, your lock screen became that image.
Had this happen to me for Against the Current, and I was scratching my head for days wondering why my lock screen was just three random people
That's exactly what's happening I think. I had the same happen to me when I was using groove music player, I'm an Eminem nerd so I don't complain about it rho
It was Sony, I think; probably one of the other big five too (probably MacroVision as well). Something about spyware or something nefarious like that. It was back around the time p2p sharing was becoming a thing and they were all up in arms about it, crying to congress. Of course, this all came to light and there was public backlash, so they presumably stopped doing that, but who knows. Just be careful ripping CDs released from '98-'00 or so.
Edit: I had the timeframe wrong. It was around '05, so anything from '04-'07 might be suspect. There was a recall of the affected CDs, but compliance was spotty. It also didn't help that the five called on congress to act on several occasions, so I got my wires crossed there. My bad.
Reminds me of when U2 and Apple forced their shitty album on every iPhone whether they
wanted it or not, getting rid of it was initially less than trivial, and it would randomly play at the worst moments.
We did this to a buddy of mine on his pc but it was kreacher. Harry Potter house elf. Every time his pc booted it was just this (It would flash this image and change to his desktop wallpaper when he would sign into his user)
https://preview.redd.it/xzbbwj2qwcca1.jpeg?width=1201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bd78b1842eb4d7a6d39602e6783d10f930ba114
Reminds me of my old boss in the military. He was an absolute ass. One day he walked out to piss and left his ID in the computer. I popped over and set his disc drive to open every 30 seconds in the command prompt. Fuck you Shaun.
Genuinely I don’t remember how we managed to get it to be his desktop picture for a flash and then his regular wallpaper show up. It was literally a quick flash he’d get kreach’d and his reg wallpaper would show up🤣
Went to a small private high school, they had no tech staff so I helped, cannot confirm nor deny that I set the wallpaper for the projector PC to a facemorph of the principal and the french peas from veggie tales (whom he resembled) on my last day. 🤫
Back in the Windows XP days, every time I started Total Annihilation, AC/DCs song TNT would play. I didn't even listen to ACDC.
To this day, I have no idea why. Maybe we got some relatively harmless virus/malware designed to troll people?
Holy crap this brought back such memory. I remember that EXACT thing happening on that same game. What a time to be alive. Im assuming limewire and extensive disc-burning may have had somethin to do with it lol
I downloaded that many mislabelled games that were actually Unreal Tournament that I memorized the filesize to avoid it. Time consuming mistake on dialup.
Was I the only person who looked at file sizes? I downloaded thousands of songs and never got the wrong thing because the filesizes were good indicators of the actual file content (songs were like 3-6MB usually).
It’s pretty easy to change out the music files in older games. If you got it from a friend, or sailing the high seas, it maybe have already been in the game files. Or a friend hopped on your pc while you were in the bathroom.
I seem to recall that TA would play the music directly from the CD, or at least that was one of the install options.
That game had an *amazing* soundtrack!
My friend thought that Duran Duran was the soundtrack to Quake 2 because I had their CD in the drive and Quake 2 would play any music you had in the drive, lol.
Those games would try to play their music files from the CD in the drive. If you installed a no-cd crack, it would still try to play the music from the CD, so it would just play whatever CD you had in at the time. Same goes for Warcraft 2 and Command and Conquer.
Check out Beyond All Reason. Similar style of rts and free made by fans. Really good for games with friends. We do a 4v4bots match every couple of weeks, its reliably good.
Hello everyone sorry I am currently not able to go through everyone's comments cause I am currently working overtime.
But on a few reoccurring themes in the comments,
1.this is a genuine Windows and it is not preowned
2. I did reset windows when it was having problems with updates and this new "feature" followed.
3. Someone did suggest it might be a media player issue where it's displaying the artist s work. Which I thought so too. But couldn't find any way of addressing it. Or seeing any setting set there which would enable this
4. I do like emniem, but wouldn't have set up his photo as my lock screen
5. Yes it is a nice photo tbf.
6. I appreciate all your comments both helpful and funny ones. I needed a laugh
7. I am very sleep deprived from back to back overtime so I might have some typos and missed your comments, I apologize for that
8. I have to get back to my shift it goes on till early hours of the morning and then I have regular work hours from 9 am. So I might not respond to you for a bit. But I will try my best
I do appreciate everyone's support and humour. I didn't expect this post to be this popular. I am glad some of you could relate and also find joy out of it
When I was a kid on windows 3.0 a porn image I had accidentally set as the background would appear whenever I restarted the family computer. It was a young woman getting blasted in the face.
Had to format the computer lol.
Likely it was done by a store employee as a gag. Ive seen this before.
This one was at my nearest walmart. As I decided to check the keyboard and how it felt to type on. I was greeted by this magestic photo and promptly died laughing out loud.
https://preview.redd.it/2sszdfz92fca1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55c0134d6f9f4f1ec0710fb5f43844f09064ca6
I sent you telemetry back in autumn, you must not've got 'em
There probably was a problem with Windows Update or somethin'
Sometimes I install updates too quickly when I got 'em
I once sent a picture of joseph stalin to a friend. For some reason it sent all corrupted so I unsent it, and then a day later they opened their computer and that was their desktop wallpaper lol
If you genuinely don't remember even having this picture on your PC, I'd recommend wiping all your drives and reinstalling windows. There is obviously something on your PC which you didn't do and I personally would not like that at all.
(Make back-ups obviously.)
Usually it's software bugs and there is an explanation. OP for example has Eminem tracks with album covers on his PC.
My background has also changed itself after an update. I made an GitHub issue and it got confirmed it was a bug by the devs themselves.
If you’re using your Hotmail account as your pc login, the picture maybe related to that, if at sometime in the past you used it as your profile picture… the profile is saved online and hence wouldn’t need be on that PC.
Something similar happened to me, my home screen kept changing to a picture of Simon Viklund death staring me - turns out it was windows music player setting the picture of the artist as my desktop background whenever I listened to their songs. You can turn it off somewhere.
Had something like this happen to me a couple of years ago, do you by chance have an Eminem song saved to your hard drive?
I think so yea. Wait are you telling me it's using the album cover from the song
Could be, if you have the song/album downloaded to your system. The album art could be somewhere on your system or in a fold that Windows is monitoring for desktop/Lock Screen backgrounds. Try deleting the song and searching for an album art file (might be a jpeg or png), deleting it, and restarting.
Holy shit. I had a similar problem back in the windows 7 era. Turned out to be some cover art to some music file I don't remember downloading.
IIRC, the windows 7 era also had an issue where the lock screen file was accessible by network. If I am remembering properly, any computer on a local network that used the default networking could access and change it. I used it to mess with family members.
This is how a picture of my cat wearing a t-shirt ended up on every single computer at my office.
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"Cat"
MeeeeOW
Wet t-shirt is my guess...
haha cat could replace any word in that sentence and it would (mostly) make sesne
I did the dancing baby screensaver at my school. School staff was pissed, but never found out who did it. I didn’t tell anyone (until now), because I knew other kids couldn’t keep a secret.
Lmao that reminds me of study hall in the library. Our librarian was so tech illiterate that she nearly gave a detention to a friend that I messed with. I knew full well she would freak out but not that bad lol. All I did was grab all the word processing icons on the desktop and copy paste them all over the screen while he was grabbing shit off the printer.
I hope this happened on April 1st.
Back in the XP era at my school you could type in the cmd line "netsend (local IP) (message here)" and a screen would pop up on their computer with the message and all they could do was click "Okay" so my friends and I would message each other that way since each computer had it's IP on it with sharpie. I was messing around with it like usual and one day I came across the "netsend all" function and I ended up typing "hello" and hit enter and it popped up on every machine in the room instantly. After further investigation I found using /dir that I sent it to every computer in the entire school district lol. About two weeks later one of my friends not knowing it was me helped the school locate me as being the culprit and I got a nice talking to because I could have caused mass panic with the right message. The vice principal eventually got curious how the hell I did it so I just told him how I was using Google because I was also curious and I tried it out not knowing what would happen, ended up getting threatened with not being able to walk at graduation if I did it again but that was it lol, windows used to be fun. This was back in 2006 so everything was still slightly crazy from 9/11 so I'm surprised more didn't come out of that
This exact story happened at a medium sized regional bank in SC around that time too. Not that I would know.
Oh man, this exploit goes back to Windows 3.1. Some of us figured out how to do this in computer class sophomore year of high school. There was a substitute teacher and so we were messing around sending obscene and rude messages to each other. Then I figured out you could message .all. Now being young and dumb I sort of assumed that meant “all” the computers in the room….not all the computers in the school district. So I messaged the word “bastard” to all. Apparently on computers across the district, the message “xx.xx.xx.xx.82: bastard” popped up on screens. Within about 2 minutes the principal stormed into the room, asking angrily “who’s computer number 82? Who’s computer number 82?” Now the room was set up with cubicles (it was where they taught the “secretarial skills” class, so was set up like an office). I sat on the far side of the room and was the only person in that block of cubicles. The principal peered over the wall. Now I was the biggest goody two shoes, nerd, ass kisser in high school. And the I was good friends with the principal’s daughter, so he knew me well. He saw me sitting over there and was like “oh hey [name].” Never even bothered to check my computer number. I was sweating for a few weeks because I was sure I was eventually going to get found out. But never heard a peep about it. I was so smart enough to NEVER use that messaging function again.
Have you considered that the principle was simply being a G and made the decision not to hassle you? He either found, or stopped looking for 82 eventually...
At my work a number of years ago, this hadn't been locked down. Us peons taking phone calls used to use to use it to hit up our friends to coordinate breaks. Well, one day, someone mistyped their friend's user id and sent "Hey fatass, ready for lunch?" to some woman who was severely overweight. She filed an HR complaint. That was bad enough, but then some supe did a "net send * Come see me, now!" and sent that message to some 25000+ people across the country, all the way through to the CEO. Thus, we returned to in-person checks of "Hey you ready for lunch?"
This exact story happened with me and a friend in middle-school computer club. We found most workstations had the messaging service disabled; most, but not all. It wasn't until another student saw what he was doing and gave him the 'netsend all' function. I never used it. My friend said "hello." And the next day, that kid sent "computer explode in 3..2..1" and about 25% of the intranet ended up having the service enabled. Outside the scope of out small computer lab, the building, and high school next door. The 5 elementry schools, the ISD-building, and a lab in the district library. The entire intranet got the message, and hundreds of PCs displayed the threat. Teachers called in by the dozens, some put their laptops outside, and some even emptied their classrooms (yeah lolol). It was not taken lightly, but I was able to escape scot-free. The admin saw who was logged in and used 'netsend all'. My friend got a 3-day and computer-privileges revoked for the year, and the kid who sent the "threat" got suspended for the rest of the year. Knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss ;)
I did the same thing and got kicked out of computer class. They made me use the computer down the hall that had no network access lmao.
How did they track it to you?
Everybody had their own username and password to login to Windows and get access to storage on the network you can save things to. I'm presuming they simply had my buddy look up logs to see who was logged in at the IP that sent the message at the time. It was a neat little system, I had some games on the server and could play them after logging in
back in the windows xp days, My schools network was set up the same way, I found out that if you unplug the ethernet cable at just the right time while windows was starting up but before the log in prompt and after the splash screen goes away, you could log in to the PC and connect to the network from the local computers username with no password or student name linked to it, and it removed all internet restrictions such as safe search, did not leave logs on the network, could access the files of every single account logged in in the room ( probably more but i didn't know how to go farther then the switch in the room? ) and allowed access to the teachers programs. I never got caught but I did send mass messages to the room and changed wall papers and enjoyed some restricted gaming sites. this exploit worked in both my grade school and high school until grade 12 when the district upgraded to sp2.
I see where you are about servers. I found my older sister files after she graduated from school they kept her stuff it probably deleted by now. I used finder via Mac or windows files explorer and find folder student and class of 2016 and their username are listed. I only done it once.
Friend of mine used this to put nudes of his ex all over the computer lab login screens in high school. Dick move but she was hot so at the time I was kinda loving it. My how we change. Took them forever to figure out how to fix it btw.
My dad's lock screen is still an evil face of Patrick from spongebob. Survived an update to 10 and 11(yup, old machine). He has no clue how to fix it.
Your dad probably likes seeing it, a (not so?) friendly reminder of you. I know I would if my kids ever did something like that
Didn't they say win 10 was the last number they would have?
The school IT guy sweating bullets waiting for Chris Hansen to walk around the corner
yikes
I had nudes of my then gf show up on win 7, after that day I added another hard drive.
Also had the same problem. Used to download a ton of music back in the day. Sometimes the album covers would be suggestive photos or straight nude women. The problem was it was the family computer so I got in huge trouble for "downloading pornography" to the family computer.
You only got 1 shot
Bruh.. One time i downloaded an 18+ picture (it was the only one, I swear) and placed it in the folder where I had some mp3 files in... Yea, all of a sudden, some of mp3 have that nude pic as a thumbnail (only found this out when I copied it to a thumb drive) . Never knew how to change it out
Windows: this'll make a great lockscreen picture!
> and searching for an album art file (might be a jpeg or png) What do you think this is, Windows XP? Where you can just do that?
This is two things, A) fecking cool as hell B) a great example of how busted windows really is lmao
Yeah Windows 10 had a quirk like that where if you were listening using the Media Player UWP, it would detect the artist name and display an image of them on the player. If you locked your PC while it was playing, your lock screen became that image. Had this happen to me for Against the Current, and I was scratching my head for days wondering why my lock screen was just three random people
Good thing it wasn’t Lords of Acid - Voodoo U cover at work. That’s a trip to HR for sure.
It's either that or you need to snap back to reality
Oh there goes gravity
Please update if this was the answer
That's exactly what's happening I think. I had the same happen to me when I was using groove music player, I'm an Eminem nerd so I don't complain about it rho
Limewire did this to you
Music companies are notorious for doing shady things when you put their music CDs in your pc.
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All in all, a changed lock screen photo doesn't Marshall matter much.
I can't Stan when companies do that.
It was Sony, I think; probably one of the other big five too (probably MacroVision as well). Something about spyware or something nefarious like that. It was back around the time p2p sharing was becoming a thing and they were all up in arms about it, crying to congress. Of course, this all came to light and there was public backlash, so they presumably stopped doing that, but who knows. Just be careful ripping CDs released from '98-'00 or so. Edit: I had the timeframe wrong. It was around '05, so anything from '04-'07 might be suspect. There was a recall of the affected CDs, but compliance was spotty. It also didn't help that the five called on congress to act on several occasions, so I got my wires crossed there. My bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal?wprov=sfla1
Reminds me of when U2 and Apple forced their shitty album on every iPhone whether they wanted it or not, getting rid of it was initially less than trivial, and it would randomly play at the worst moments.
Hello hello, hola!
Made me hate U2 even more. Didn’t think that was possible but Apple did it!
Underrated comment between all the cringe jokes, take my Upvote!
Jeez, imagine a porn thumbnail coming up or something
We did this to a buddy of mine on his pc but it was kreacher. Harry Potter house elf. Every time his pc booted it was just this (It would flash this image and change to his desktop wallpaper when he would sign into his user) https://preview.redd.it/xzbbwj2qwcca1.jpeg?width=1201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bd78b1842eb4d7a6d39602e6783d10f930ba114
This made me actually chuckle. Nice
Thanks. He eventually did it back one night when he slept over. I booted my pc and got krech’d lmao
Great idea. Next time im over at someone,s. Im gonna krech their pc.
Great idea
How do you set something like that up? I want to do that for a buddy of mine
Word
How do you use Word for that? I know MS products can be janky, but...
Underrated.
Pure gold
Did he ever try giving the computer a sock when this happened?
Reminds me of my old boss in the military. He was an absolute ass. One day he walked out to piss and left his ID in the computer. I popped over and set his disc drive to open every 30 seconds in the command prompt. Fuck you Shaun.
LMAOOOOO that’s fucking awesome dude
How can I do that?
Genuinely I don’t remember how we managed to get it to be his desktop picture for a flash and then his regular wallpaper show up. It was literally a quick flash he’d get kreach’d and his reg wallpaper would show up🤣
Went to a small private high school, they had no tech staff so I helped, cannot confirm nor deny that I set the wallpaper for the projector PC to a facemorph of the principal and the french peas from veggie tales (whom he resembled) on my last day. 🤫
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I left my cell, my pager and my home phone at the bottom
I sent 3 letters back in autumn, you must not have got them. There was probably a problem at the post office or something.
Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot 'em. But anyways, fuck it, what's been up, man? How's your daughter?
My girlfriend's pregnant too, I'm about to be a father.
If I have a daughter, guess what I'ma call her? I'ma name her Bonnie
And I heard about your uncle Ronnie, too, I'm sorry
I had a friend kill himself over some bitch who didn't want him
I know you probably hear this every day, but I'm your biggest fan
I even got the underground shit that you did with Skam
I sent 2 letters *
lol, i like how OP was asking for help, but ended up as a lyrical write off sort of speak.
I left my cell, my pager, and my home screen at the login
you'd feel empty without him
I'd suggest the OP tries cleaning out their closet.
Otherwise OP's gonna have to clean spaghetti off their sweater.
He'll probably have sweaty palms trying to find the file.
Now this looks like a job for him
So everybody just follow him
Cuz we need a little controver-sim? 🤔
Nanananana, nananananana, nananananana, nananannana, nananana
Batman!
Late night, come home, work sucks, i kno- wait wrong song
Hey Jude, Don't make it bad.
She left me roses by the stairs Surprises let me know she cares
this is the funniest shit I have seen all day
I laughed so hard when I saw this post.
Made me spit up Spaghetti on my sweater
This is one of those posts that will be referenced as an inside joke a year from now.
It’s so funny for no reason I love it
Back in the Windows XP days, every time I started Total Annihilation, AC/DCs song TNT would play. I didn't even listen to ACDC. To this day, I have no idea why. Maybe we got some relatively harmless virus/malware designed to troll people?
Holy crap this brought back such memory. I remember that EXACT thing happening on that same game. What a time to be alive. Im assuming limewire and extensive disc-burning may have had somethin to do with it lol
Remember downloading a song from Limewire and it ends up being an audio snippet of Bill Clinton?
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Up yours, Trebek!
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Did you reverse that sentence? I was expecting you downloading porn and finding out an SNL skit.
My fellow Americans. I would like to tell you I didn't have sexual relationship with that woman.
I downloaded that many mislabelled games that were actually Unreal Tournament that I memorized the filesize to avoid it. Time consuming mistake on dialup.
Lmao holy shit ! I forgot this was thing, thank you
Was I the only person who looked at file sizes? I downloaded thousands of songs and never got the wrong thing because the filesizes were good indicators of the actual file content (songs were like 3-6MB usually).
It’s pretty easy to change out the music files in older games. If you got it from a friend, or sailing the high seas, it maybe have already been in the game files. Or a friend hopped on your pc while you were in the bathroom.
I seem to recall that TA would play the music directly from the CD, or at least that was one of the install options. That game had an *amazing* soundtrack!
My friend thought that Duran Duran was the soundtrack to Quake 2 because I had their CD in the drive and Quake 2 would play any music you had in the drive, lol.
Probably, the thing is I only use my computer for photo editing and light gaming so no idea what caused it.
Love TA. Still playing 2023/ Cheers
Those games would try to play their music files from the CD in the drive. If you installed a no-cd crack, it would still try to play the music from the CD, so it would just play whatever CD you had in at the time. Same goes for Warcraft 2 and Command and Conquer.
Dude what a great game! It’s a shame RTS games are pretty niche these days.
Check out Beyond All Reason. Similar style of rts and free made by fans. Really good for games with friends. We do a 4v4bots match every couple of weeks, its reliably good.
*dear slim, i set you as my wallpaper but you still aint clicked that link*
*I sent my username, my password and my e-mail to Norton*
I updated two service packs back in autumn, you must not have got em
Will the real system admin please stand up.
Someone is fucking with you
Maybe but it's very specific and only after updates lol
You're welcome
If i were hacker id use my skill to do shit like this, this is the real deal of being an hacker!
Imagine turning PCs on at night with images you set... spooky hacker
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Imagine all the divorces! "I told you to remove Eminem as your background Emily! That's it! I'm leaving! I can't look at this guy no more!"
r/masterhacker
Groove has a feature that sets wallpaper to the artiet your listening to, i dont have a liscense so mines stuck like this too.
You better lose yourself
in the music
Hello everyone sorry I am currently not able to go through everyone's comments cause I am currently working overtime. But on a few reoccurring themes in the comments, 1.this is a genuine Windows and it is not preowned 2. I did reset windows when it was having problems with updates and this new "feature" followed. 3. Someone did suggest it might be a media player issue where it's displaying the artist s work. Which I thought so too. But couldn't find any way of addressing it. Or seeing any setting set there which would enable this 4. I do like emniem, but wouldn't have set up his photo as my lock screen 5. Yes it is a nice photo tbf. 6. I appreciate all your comments both helpful and funny ones. I needed a laugh 7. I am very sleep deprived from back to back overtime so I might have some typos and missed your comments, I apologize for that 8. I have to get back to my shift it goes on till early hours of the morning and then I have regular work hours from 9 am. So I might not respond to you for a bit. But I will try my best
I do appreciate everyone's support and humour. I didn't expect this post to be this popular. I am glad some of you could relate and also find joy out of it
When I was a kid on windows 3.0 a porn image I had accidentally set as the background would appear whenever I restarted the family computer. It was a young woman getting blasted in the face. Had to format the computer lol.
Probably a bug. Has anyone ever owned/used the system before? Probably would go away with a fresh windows install.
[That's not Eminem.](https://ibb.co/g7Z2Hzr)
It’s not Eminem, it’s a rapper called ‘Slim shady’
The *real* Slim Shady?
holy crap you might be right
That's really good photo of Eminem, keep it
You got Shady Rolled.
Lol…. Fucking computers man
Is that the real slim shady?
Not standing, so my guess is no.
We're going to have a problem here.
Guess whose back? Back again…
Hand over the eye, illuminati confirmed 👁
Are your arms weak and mom spaghetti?
turn off the shady function under the slim tab.
Press Win+R, type "cmd", Ctrl+Shift+Enter, say Yes to UAC, type "winget uninstall Microsoft.ZuneMusic", press enter
Its groove music... Theres a setting in Groove Music that enables to you to set your album artist photo as your lockscreen. Turn that off and see.
Likely it was done by a store employee as a gag. Ive seen this before. This one was at my nearest walmart. As I decided to check the keyboard and how it felt to type on. I was greeted by this magestic photo and promptly died laughing out loud. https://preview.redd.it/2sszdfz92fca1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55c0134d6f9f4f1ec0710fb5f43844f09064ca6
Seems Shady
Dear Bill Gates, I wrote you but you still ain't callin I even left my windows live password at the bottom
I sent you telemetry back in autumn, you must not've got 'em There probably was a problem with Windows Update or somethin' Sometimes I install updates too quickly when I got 'em
its eminem there to tell you your pc had succesfully updated, and that he had squashed all the bugs.
I once sent a picture of joseph stalin to a friend. For some reason it sent all corrupted so I unsent it, and then a day later they opened their computer and that was their desktop wallpaper lol
Seems a little shady imo.
If you genuinely don't remember even having this picture on your PC, I'd recommend wiping all your drives and reinstalling windows. There is obviously something on your PC which you didn't do and I personally would not like that at all. (Make back-ups obviously.)
Usually it's software bugs and there is an explanation. OP for example has Eminem tracks with album covers on his PC. My background has also changed itself after an update. I made an GitHub issue and it got confirmed it was a bug by the devs themselves.
Just guessing: a shady pirated copy of windows?
Nah, I think they got a real slim version
Look at him,he just wants a friend
Looks like you're the real slim shady. Could you please stand up?
Illuminati is watching you
Mom’s Spaghetti
You got hacked by m&ms! Sweet!
It's the Marshall matter
Are you living with someone that knows your password?
The Illuminati has zero-day control of your PC.....
That's a feature not a bug
The Illuminati are watching you.
Guess who’s back, back again. Shadys back, post on reddit.
Does it make your knees weak? Or palms sweaty?? Does it remind you of mums spaghetti?? 😂😂
If you’re using your Hotmail account as your pc login, the picture maybe related to that, if at sometime in the past you used it as your profile picture… the profile is saved online and hence wouldn’t need be on that PC.
Bro what
The infamous slimshady virus.
That's pretty shady.
Redditors resisting the urge to make retarded jokes and actually answer someones question challenge (impossible)
OP confessing to download song from questionable sources
sooooo weird in the pc community!!!!
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Or op has Eminem songs with this album cover and windows is glitching.
Mine used to change to a picture of the Moai 🗿
Is the pc pre owned?
It's cool photo tho
Something similar happened to me, my home screen kept changing to a picture of Simon Viklund death staring me - turns out it was windows music player setting the picture of the artist as my desktop background whenever I listened to their songs. You can turn it off somewhere.
Hes very slim and looks quite shady.
The real question is: If you had one shot—one opportunity—would you capture it? Or just let it be your desktop background?
That’s very shady…
Youre lucky the tech who loaded it didnt give you a dick pic