desktop settings wont stick!

[Guest]

Everytime i reboot my desktop has XP Style, even though i go into
DisplaySettings/Appearance and switch to Classic Style (and always hit
"apply").
Am baffled why I cant get this setting to stick. Any idea's would be much
appreciated.

 

[R..VENKATARAMAN]

I think you can put the items in one or two grids(if you take the mouse with
left button pressed you can see the configuration of grids) and rightlclick
desktop -arrange icons by-align to grid. try that.

 

[Guest]

Thankyou for the response, but we're talking about two different things.
My problem is not my icons, its my windows appearance, i cannot make it stay
set on windows classic appearance. Every time i restart my computer it
resorts back to windows XP default appearance.
I go into display properties/appearance tab, change to classic view, hit
apply and all is good, then when i restart computer, its right back to
windows default blue.
I had just reformated (clean install) last week, and i'm thinking maybe
somethings disabled in my services.msc settings.

 

[Heirloom]

Mine did the same thing after the latest round of updates. Clearing the
Temp folder put everything back as it was.
Heirloom, old and back to Classic

 

[Guest]

thanks heirloom, i'll give that a try.

Mine did the same thing after the latest round of updates. Clearing the
Temp folder put everything back as it was.
Heirloom, old and back to Classic

 

[thegatekeeper]

Everytime i reboot my desktop has XP Style, even though i go into
DisplaySettings/Appearance and switch to Classic Style (and always hit
"apply").
Am baffled why I cant get this setting to stick. Any idea's would be much
appreciated.

I have the same problem here. I like the classic style but after a
re-boot the task bar reverts back to the xp blue.My pc is only a month
old and have had this problem from day one. I always hit the apply
button. Why wont the setting stick??