Odd, I have IE8 on XP SP3 and I can add a BMP to the desktop fine. Right
click the desktop, click Properties, go to the Desktop tab, click the
Customise button at the bottom left, click the Web tab, then click New and
in the URL box enter the path to the BMP file on your hard disk (or a web
URL, if it happens to be on a website). Once you click through the OK boxes
it will appear right there on the desktop, and then you can drag it to where
you want it by hovering over the image until a small top window bar appears
and then just drag it using this bar.
As PA Bear has stated, this is not something that IE8 has broken, it's
possible that something odd in your configuration has resulted in the
registry setting being cleared during install but it's certainly not
something that you can't fix with a couple of mouse clicks.
Dan
"Beetle Baily" <BeetleBaily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:72CE5A5C-D1DA-4F25-8FE2-3576B0FB87C5@microsoft.com...
> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm glad to hear that you're happy with IE8. My desktop has no background,
> just a blue screen. Under the Web tab of the Desktop Items I have added
> the
> Windows XP logo as a BMP file in a small window, in the upper right hand
> corner of the desktop. After upgrading to IE8 this window and logo
> disappeared and I was unable to restore it. So I reverted back to a
> previous
> system save with IE7. I don't know what the problem was but I decided to
> stay
> with IE7 for as long as I can.
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Beetle Baily" <BeetleBaily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2D2E9ABE-F59C-4FB1-B215-399952E40BE8@microsoft.com...
>> > After upgrading to IE8 I lost my Windows XP logo on my desktop. This
>> > feature
>> > was available in previous versions by adding "Web Page Content" to the
>> > Desktop Items of Display Properties. As a result, I reverted back to
>> > IE7.
>> > After reading all these negative posts, I really see no reason for
>> > upgrading
>> > to IE8.
>>
>> What sort of "web page content" was it? IE8 doesn't change, as far as I
>> can
>> see, the desktop settings - you can use bitmaps or jpegs for background
>> images, and there is still a web tab on the desktop settings to allow web
>> pages to be added.
>>
>> A bit more detail in what you had might help someone to tell you why it
>> doesn't work, or how to get it working.
>>
>> And as to "all these negative posts", note for IE7 most of the posts in
>> the
>> group are negative yet you still upgraded to that. With support forums
>> it's
>> almost always the same - people who have problems, often by their own
>> making, will post loudly, but people without problems don't post because
>> they don't need to. All my PCs (I've got 5 at home, and a couple more at
>> work) are happily running IE8, I wouldn't go back to IE7.
>>
>> --
>> Dan
>>