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Weird XP problem

Arkaign

Arkaign

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Never seen this before, now two people have brought PCs in the same day with the same problem.

Cleaned virii/spyware/etc already. (Panda/Spybot/Ad-Aware/Kaspersky/etc)

Problem in detail :

In desktop properties, the section that shows the desktop wallpaper is greyed-out (well, not really gray, sort of dark orange or something), you can't click or change it at all. Right-clicking an image and selecting 'set as background' from inside IE looks like it works, only nothing actually appears on the background. I can change the COLOR of the desktop, but not the content, it remains a blank screen.

Any ideas/experience with this? My thanks in advance to the fine AT OS community! (This means YOU bsobel, smilin, Stash, and those I've not mentioned here!)
 
I appreciate the reply, it's close but not quite the issue I'm seeing here. The screensavers work fine, but the desktop wallpaper is greyed out and cannot be changed from a blank background. All of the icons work fine, fwiw.
 
Try this:
Solution for computer that can't change desktop wallpaper / background
Submitted by Rick on October 6, 2006 - 2:25pm. Riding Shotgun with Rick | Windows Tips
I ran into this problem earlier this week and found the solution. The customer could not change his desktop background to any of the stock photos in Windows or his own photos...something that any Windows user should be able to do. Turns out that the root cause of the problem is spyware. Even after removing the spyware a registry (skeleton of Windows) entry gets left behind disabling the users ability to change the background. Deleting this entry restores the ability for the user to again have a normal functioning desktop.

WARNING: THIS SOLUTION IS ONLY FOR COMPUTERS THAT HAVE THIS SPECIFIC PROBLEM. AND IT IS INTENDED TO ONLY BE CARRIED OUT BY AN EXPERIENCED TECHNICIAN OR COMPUTER USER WITH REGISTRY EXPERIENCE.

Click Start
Click Run
Type: regedit
Navigate to the following registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
"Wallpaper"=SZ:C:\WINDOWS\desktop.html (yours might be slightly different)
Click one time on the entry
Push Delete on the keyboard
Click Yes
Close the Registry editor


ALso note that this is sometimes caused by Spy Sheriff

See link:

http://www.bullguard.com/forum...er-after-sp_22825.html

 
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