Jeskel said:
Good day,
I cannot view my desktop picture it will not let me change the picture only
the colors. I have windows XP-can someone help me with this.
Thank you
You've posted in a newsgroup for the Vista operating system. Next time
ask questions about XP in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.
For your issue, first make sure your computer is virus/malware-free:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
If the machine is clean, then go to the Display applet in Control Panel
and look on the Desktop tab. Click on Customize Desktop, and then click
on the Web tab. You will see that there are checkmarks next to "My
Current Home Page" and probably "Lock Desktop Items". Uncheck these,
Apply/OK out.
Other information:
If you can't enable desktop backgrounds after a virus, MVP Kelly Theriot
has a fix. Look under Wallpaper-Desktop-Disable Changing here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_w.htm
If Display tabs are missing, run Kelly's registry edit on line 285,
right-hand side "Restore all display tabs".
Check to see if these Registry entries exist:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GroupPolicyobject\{21A7BE9D-5027-49C1-B6F7-757B707E1C94}User\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
If "GroupPolicyRefreshTime" and/or "GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffset" are
there, then delete them.
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System. If
"GroupPolicyRefreshTime" and/or "GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffset" are
there, then delete them and then run the reg fix from Kelly's page.
A default wallpaper called wp.bmp may be set in
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System created by the
smitfraud.c virus. Remove that and you will be able to choose different
wallpapers.
For inability to change wallpaper after malware, here is another key:
Hkey_Current_User/software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Bogus values will be set to 0. Delete or set to 1.
Malke
