Can't change wallpaper

S

Stan

A friends computer......XP Home SP2.

His wallpaper is plain black.(not by choice). In Display Properties,
highlighting a wallpaper does not work and the arrow keys to move the
wallpaper list of choices up and down does not work.
Everything else in Display Properties works.

This may be related to installing IE7.

He also was getting an error on startup.....The procedure entry point
GetProcessImageFileNameW could not be found in PSAPI.DLL. (Not exactly word
for word but close).

After searching the internet I renamed all the PSAPI.DLL fills (except those
in system32). The error message no longer shows on startup. I mention this
incase it's related to the wallpaper problem.

Any suggestions on the wallpaper thing?

Oh, after installing IE7, he went to broadband so (for me) I'm reluctant to
use system restore. I don't know anything about setting a computer up with
broadband.
 
S

Stan

Hi Kelly,
I was in a hurry this AM when I posted and I didn't mention that I checked
the
HKey_Current_User,software,Microsoft,windows,currentversion,policies,explorer.........noactivedesktopchanges
is set to (0) 'allow' changes.

Does your fix on line 142 just make this change or does it do more?
 

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