Where does desktop.png come from?

Is this somehow connected to Fences?

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Occasionally after a reboot i find a desktop.png file on my desktop. It is not a real screenshot of my desktop. It is more like a screenshot of Fences running on my desktop. So I wonder if this is connected to Fences somehow? The desktop.png file is automatically created. I do not know where it comes from. I have a lot of tools for making screenshots but none of them are saving to the desktop or are taking screenshots on system start. Does anyone know about it?

Here is what it looks like:

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

If you on Fences 4, and from my observation, Fences do take Snapshots of your desktop daily but I believe its in png file format. And it will be save in "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Stardock\Fences\Backups" So, I can't be sure if your jpg file from Fences. What you can do is disable Fences daily backup snapshot save option and see if the .jpg still appear.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you for your help. It is a png file as I wrote in my first post, so there may be a connection. Every screenshot tool that I know would create a complete screenshot of the desktop. But this screenshot does only show the Fences elements on my desktop, no taskbar and no background picture. And this happens although I use the Fences quick-hide function. So if some other tool would take a screenshot automatically it would show the exact opposite. The desktop background picture and the taskbar but not the Fences because they are hidden.

That is strange. I will try to disable the Fences snapshot function and see if it will happen again.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a lot of tools for making screenshots
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I don't think Fences is able to produce that screenshot and place it on your desktop. It's more likely that some of the other apps installed on your system is producing it. As you say, you have a lot of screen capturing software installed, and I think one of them is set to automatic capture or a hotkey you're not aware of.