running program that I have not installed

Windows 7

Someone sent me a photo that has been copied from visualslideshow running on another computer.  I downloaded he considered what it is and saved it not knowing it wasn't a normal jpeg file.

Now every time I turned off my computer, after the screen that says "of programmes - need to close ' etc, the image flashes on my screen and then the computer shuts down."  I tried to freeze the image so I could try to stop the program, but the best I could do was read "visualslideshow" in the lower right of the image.

I did the following:

1 remove the photo

2 search programs for visualslideshow - has not found any reference to visualslideshow

3 looked into services.msc services and msconfig,-has not found anything

4. watched in the the Task Manager - applications and process - has not found anything

5. virus software - ran no virus

6 looked at Windows media player - no slide show or photo

7 google everything I could think of

8 went to visualslideshow.com and looked for a way to delete a photo/slide show running without the software installed - nothing

9 tried to do a restore of the system twice but the restore will fail.

I can't get the image to display any other time - only pop during the closing down.

Anyone know what may be the problem and how do I remove this file permanently?

Thank you.

Mary

I solved the problem.

The picture was in these two folders:

~appdata\roaming\Microsoft\windows Photo Viewer

and

~appdata\roaming\Microsoft\windows\themes

Delete the picture and everything is back to normal.   (not sure how and why they got there).

Files did not have the name of the original file, so were not not in one of the searches I did.

Thanks for your help.

Note: my application by e-mail at Visual slide show of support is left unanswered.

Tags: Windows

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