i cant change my background i think its something in my registry i checked
but... nothing...

its grayed out when i right click on desktop and try to change it through
there.

Can Anyone Help?

I have smae prob on my sons account, and when i do as you said by typing
"REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL" i get failed return code 0x80070005
any ideas?
Regards Phil

"John Inzer" wrote:

> Guy with a background-changing problem. wrote:
> > i cant change my background i think its something in my registry i
> > checked but... nothing...
> >
> > its grayed out when i right click on desktop and try to change it
> > through there.
> >
> > Can Anyone Help?
> ==================
> Try this, maybe it will restore the option:
>
> Go to...Start / Run and type
> (or copy/paste):
>
> "REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL"
> (without the quotes)(Yes, there's
> a space between 2 and S)
>
> Click...OK.
>
> A dialog box should report the following:
>
> "DllRegisterServer in SHIMGVW.DLL succeeded"
>
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
>
>
>