My deskop will no stay on

Which operating system ??
Is it for computer background or a program ??..
Make a Black Background White

The desktop appearance of a computer equipped with Microsoft Windows XP, whether PC or laptop, can be customized easily.
Users can change background color, background image, frame color, font size and the arrangement of desktop icons.
Five easy steps how to change the desktop background color from black to white.
Changing Background Color
Right-click the mouse on any open portion (i.e., non-icon) of the desktop, which will open a menu. Select "Properties" at the menu's bottom, which will open the "Display Properties" application.
Click the "Desktop" tab at the application's top.

Click the down arrow next to the "Color" button, and select the white color.


Click the "Apply" button, then click "OK" to close the application.


http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/display_change_background_color.mspx?mfr=true

Right click on a blank spot on the desktop and click "Personalize". You can then click "Desktop Background" to pick your background.

Another option is to find the picture you wish to set as the background, right click on it and click "Set as Desktop Background".

Welcome!
To change your netbook's wallpaper, just click on an empty space on your desktop. Right click and choose Properties. Click on Desktop Tab. You will see there BACKGROUND and under it, listed are background photos that you can use. Just choose what you like, click Apply.
Alternately, you can go online and search for a photo you would like to be your background. Just right click on the photo and choose Set as Desktop Background.
Hope this helps you. All the best!

Somehow it looks you have set the photo as desktop background.

Assuming it to be XP.
To remove desktop background you can right click on open space on Desktop-> click on "Properties" -> click on tab Desktop, On background scroll to top and select none. and click "Apply" this will remove your photo from desktop.

For others follow the link on how to remove desktop background.
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-remove-wallpaper/

Hope this helps

If you are talking about wallpaper you need to right click on desktop and go to display setting and then go to screensaver and desktop background setting

You can change or remove the desktop background

When Windows doesn't restart it is usually because there is a process in the background that has not finished. Get into Task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and close some of the processes with a manual "End
Task". Suggestion 1.) Sort the processes by double-clicking the Process Title. 2.) End Task only the Processes in CAPITAL LETTERS. These are usually not system processes and are started by other programs. 3.) Try 1st closing all CAPITAL processes initially (make sure to wait a full 3 minutes to make sure processes have cleared) then try and shutdown. 4.) If successful, next time try to pin down the exact process holding up the system by closing down a few at a time and waiting, then shuting down.

Last observation: if this happen when shelling in Linux -- then above may not help-- in such case then remember that every time you restart your computer, the virtual machine that runs in background will close, so you'll have to open VMware Server Console and start the Windows machine before you can connect to it through the desktop shortcut.

Let us know if you still continue to have issues. Best Regards

You may have to boot from a CD and make a repair.
Once logged in the CD, choose repair option (Recovery Console), and type these three commands:
1) fixmbr (wait til it finishes)
2) fixboot (wait...)
3) CHKDSK (this will take longer than the previous two.
Your laptop may now boot normally. I think your laptop doesn't have an internal CD-ROM so you may use an external USB CD.

Hmm is there an error displayed or does it just boot like that? I would go into safe mode, by pressing F8 mutiple times at startup loading screen. In order for me to help you with the problem i need to know more about your computer. Go to START, then RUN. Type in "dxdiag". Save all that info to desktop then open with notebad or Word or something. Then copy and paste it on here.

The sequence is:
a) The Dell bios splash screen is displayed,
b) the screen will go black,
c) the disk activity light will flash for about 5 - 7 seconds, then will remain off.
d) you force a power off,
e) wait a few seconds,
f) then turn the machine back on.
g) The bios splash screen is displayed,
h) then a black screen with white text is displayed, reporting that Windows was not shut down nicely and would I like to boot into safe mode or safe mode with networking, or others.
g1) If you choose Safe Mode, Windows will boot up successfully. If I restart, the computer will usually (probably) boot into Windows fine.
g2) If you choose Boot Normally, the computer will usually (probably) enter the black and hung state.
see if that helps and the if possible do a do a system restore to when the system was working correctly.

Right click your deskop and select "Personalize"

The second link down on the list is "Desktop Background". Select it.

From there you should see a variety of desktop backgrounds to choose from. If you have a particular photo that you want to use as your background, then select, "Browse" and find the photo you wanted.

I hope this helps

-Ernest