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Sathyajith Bhat Mod
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What are the criteria for quality standards? Or... How do I get Super User to accept my question?

It seems a rather silly question to ask, but I'm attempting to ask a question on the location of wallpaper files on Windows XP. As always, I've explicitly stated my OS, very specifically spelled out my problem, and have avoided most of the pitfalls I expect a bad question to have.

Its a clear, non argumentative question which has an objective simple answer. It gets rejected for "It does not meet our quality standards. "

I quote the question below (and no, please do not answer it here - I don't want to sneak in my question by stealth. I want to know where I am going wrong as to make it a better question) and wonder... why is it failing the quality standards, and how can I make it better.

I run Windows XP and I have an image whose original I can't find that got reset as the wallpaper. I have backups of the system itself - so if I knew where to look, I could find a copy.

I have some idea of the original filename (searching now), and I recall it saves it as a bitmap, but an exact location would be helpful

I tried "where does windows store its wallpaper" and "Location windows stores its wallpaper" as title

Journeyman Geek Mod
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