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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
Hey all,
I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2. I have run a virus scan, cleaned out any spy-ware and defragged my hard drive. Does anyone heve any suggestions or a link to a site that might be able to lend a hand? thanks Rob |
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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
rob wrote:
Hey all, I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2. I have run a virus scan, cleaned out any spy-ware and defragged my hard drive. Does anyone heve any suggestions or a link to a site that might be able to lend a hand? thanks Rob You might want to try the following: Go to Control Panel and double click Display Click on the Desktop tab Click on the "CustomizeDesktop" button Click on the Web tab If there are any items listed other than "My Current Home Page", click on it and hit the Delete button. If there's a check mark next to "My Current Home Page", remove it. Remove the check mark from the box next to "Lock desktop items" You may have to log off and log back on for changes to take effect If you're unable to access the wallpaper settings in the Display applet, go to this web site and download and apply the registry fix listed on the right hand side of line 128, Restore Desktop and ScreenSaver tabs: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm If that doesn't fix the problem, try the registry fix from the right hand side of line 285, Restore All Display Tabs. Good luck Nepatsfan |
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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, they didn't solve the problem. The
control panel area was perfect. Nothing weird showed up. I downloaded the reg. fixes and nothing happened after that. It seems weird that I can change the background colour on the wallpaper but I can no longer get a pictures on the screen. any other ideas? thanks "Nepatsfan" wrote in message ... rob wrote: Hey all, I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2. I have run a virus scan, cleaned out any spy-ware and defragged my hard drive. Does anyone heve any suggestions or a link to a site that might be able to lend a hand? thanks Rob You might want to try the following: Go to Control Panel and double click Display Click on the Desktop tab Click on the "CustomizeDesktop" button Click on the Web tab If there are any items listed other than "My Current Home Page", click on it and hit the Delete button. If there's a check mark next to "My Current Home Page", remove it. Remove the check mark from the box next to "Lock desktop items" You may have to log off and log back on for changes to take effect If you're unable to access the wallpaper settings in the Display applet, go to this web site and download and apply the registry fix listed on the right hand side of line 128, Restore Desktop and ScreenSaver tabs: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm If that doesn't fix the problem, try the registry fix from the right hand side of line 285, Restore All Display Tabs. Good luck Nepatsfan |
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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
I forgot to mention another registry fix that you can try from
that web site, line 142 right hand side, Allow Wallpaper/Background changes: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Beyond that, I'm stumped. Whenever I've seen the type of behavior you've described it's been caused by an item added through that "Customize Desktop" option I mentioned earlier. The fact that you can change the background color from the Desktop tab sort of goes against that theory. The best I can give you is some things to check to see if you can narrow down the possibilities of what's causing this problem. 1. The first thing I would try would be to see if the same thing happens when you log on with another user account. If yours is the only account on that computer, create a new account that you can delete after you've run this test. Log in with the new account and see if you get the same results when you try to use an image file as wallpaper. Reboot your computer to see if the picture stays displayed. 2. Log back on with your account. Open up some image files that you have stored on your machine, right click on the picture and select "Set as Desktop Background" from the menu. If it works, reboot and see if the picture is still displayed. 3. Disconnect from the Internet. You don't want to be connected when you try the following procedure because you're going to have to shut down your antivirus protection. OK, now go to Start -Run and enter msconfig in the Open box. Click OK. Click on the Startup tab. Remove the check mark from each item listed. Close the System Configuration Utility and reboot. Note: You'll see a notice about the computer running in Diagnostic mode. Put a check in the box and click OK each time you see the warning. If the picture you want to use as your wallpaper remains displayed, run msconfig again except this time put a check mark in the box next to the first item listed on the Startup page. Reboot and see if the picture's still displayed. Keep adding back items until you find the program that's causing the problem. 4. Check any security related programs (antivirus, antispyware, etc.) that you have running on your computer to see if there is a setting that may be blocking certain file extensions from being run on your computer. Finally, if you haven't done so already, you might want to post this question to an XP newsgroup that sees more traffic than this one. Here's two that might be worth trying: news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.general news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support If you decide to post to both groups, do yourself a favor and crosspost, don't multipost. If you're not familiar with the concept, take a look here for an explanation: Why and how to crosspost http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html Good luck Nepatsfan rob wrote: Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, they didn't solve the problem. The control panel area was perfect. Nothing weird showed up. I downloaded the reg. fixes and nothing happened after that. It seems weird that I can change the background colour on the wallpaper but I can no longer get a pictures on the screen. any other ideas? thanks "Nepatsfan" wrote in message ... rob wrote: Hey all, I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2. I have run a virus scan, cleaned out any spy-ware and defragged my hard drive. Does anyone heve any suggestions or a link to a site that might be able to lend a hand? thanks Rob You might want to try the following: Go to Control Panel and double click Display Click on the Desktop tab Click on the "CustomizeDesktop" button Click on the Web tab If there are any items listed other than "My Current Home Page", click on it and hit the Delete button. If there's a check mark next to "My Current Home Page", remove it. Remove the check mark from the box next to "Lock desktop items" You may have to log off and log back on for changes to take effect If you're unable to access the wallpaper settings in the Display applet, go to this web site and download and apply the registry fix listed on the right hand side of line 128, Restore Desktop and ScreenSaver tabs: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm If that doesn't fix the problem, try the registry fix from the right hand side of line 285, Restore All Display Tabs. Good luck Nepatsfan |
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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
I have been trying to fix the same problem on my mother's computer. I wonder
if one of these fixes worked for rob? I'm going to try them at my mom's later today. "Nepatsfan" wrote: I forgot to mention another registry fix that you can try from that web site, line 142 right hand side, Allow Wallpaper/Background changes: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Beyond that, I'm stumped. Whenever I've seen the type of behavior you've described it's been caused by an item added through that "Customize Desktop" option I mentioned earlier. The fact that you can change the background color from the Desktop tab sort of goes against that theory. The best I can give you is some things to check to see if you can narrow down the possibilities of what's causing this problem. 1. The first thing I would try would be to see if the same thing happens when you log on with another user account. If yours is the only account on that computer, create a new account that you can delete after you've run this test. Log in with the new account and see if you get the same results when you try to use an image file as wallpaper. Reboot your computer to see if the picture stays displayed. 2. Log back on with your account. Open up some image files that you have stored on your machine, right click on the picture and select "Set as Desktop Background" from the menu. If it works, reboot and see if the picture is still displayed. 3. Disconnect from the Internet. You don't want to be connected when you try the following procedure because you're going to have to shut down your antivirus protection. OK, now go to Start -Run and enter msconfig in the Open box. Click OK. Click on the Startup tab. Remove the check mark from each item listed. Close the System Configuration Utility and reboot. Note: You'll see a notice about the computer running in Diagnostic mode. Put a check in the box and click OK each time you see the warning. If the picture you want to use as your wallpaper remains displayed, run msconfig again except this time put a check mark in the box next to the first item listed on the Startup page. Reboot and see if the picture's still displayed. Keep adding back items until you find the program that's causing the problem. 4. Check any security related programs (antivirus, antispyware, etc.) that you have running on your computer to see if there is a setting that may be blocking certain file extensions from being run on your computer. Finally, if you haven't done so already, you might want to post this question to an XP newsgroup that sees more traffic than this one. Here's two that might be worth trying: news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.general news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support If you decide to post to both groups, do yourself a favor and crosspost, don't multipost. If you're not familiar with the concept, take a look here for an explanation: Why and how to crosspost http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html Good luck Nepatsfan rob wrote: Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, they didn't solve the problem. The control panel area was perfect. Nothing weird showed up. I downloaded the reg. fixes and nothing happened after that. It seems weird that I can change the background colour on the wallpaper but I can no longer get a pictures on the screen. any other ideas? thanks "Nepatsfan" wrote in message ... rob wrote: Hey all, I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2. I have run a virus scan, cleaned out any spy-ware and defragged my hard drive. Does anyone heve any suggestions or a link to a site that might be able to lend a hand? thanks Rob You might want to try the following: Go to Control Panel and double click Display Click on the Desktop tab Click on the "CustomizeDesktop" button Click on the Web tab If there are any items listed other than "My Current Home Page", click on it and hit the Delete button. If there's a check mark next to "My Current Home Page", remove it. Remove the check mark from the box next to "Lock desktop items" You may have to log off and log back on for changes to take effect If you're unable to access the wallpaper settings in the Display applet, go to this web site and download and apply the registry fix listed on the right hand side of line 128, Restore Desktop and ScreenSaver tabs: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm If that doesn't fix the problem, try the registry fix from the right hand side of line 285, Restore All Display Tabs. Good luck Nepatsfan |
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lost my wallpaper...cannot access from properties
Hi,
If your wallpaper file was lost you can try restoring it with data recovery tool such as Active@ undelete. this is a really powerful one, you should definately give it a try. http://www.active-undelete.com/ |
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The Disappearing Wallpaper Caper
You might want to try this extremely low-tech workaround I stumbled on after being driven crazy by my bitmap wallpaper disappearing. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on an HP computer; don't know if this will work on other systems. 1. Image to be used must be stored in a folder set to "Show common tasks in folder" (find this on the Tools menu, Folder Options, General tab). 2. Select image. 3. Click on "Set as desktop background" in the Picture Tasks list at the left-hand side of the folder (NOT the pop-up menu you get by right-clicking the image). So far this has helped me keep my wallpaper. Good luck! Quote:
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