Why are you unable to change teh background? Can you not get to Display
Properties but right-clicking the Desktop, then clicking Properties? Can you
not get to the Start button, then Control Panel, then Display? Can you see
nothing? No Taskbar, no Start button? What if you hover your mouse near the
bottom of the screen, in case you set teh Taskbar to autohide (hovering the
mouse there or on any other side or the top of teh screen might find your
Taskbar.) Or, use WinKey-R to bring up the Run box and run the following
(exactly as written, including upper/lower case, spaces, no spaces, etc.):
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl
Or is the issue that you can't change anything in Display Properties, or at
least, you can't change the items on the Desktop tab? Because that's where
you normally make these changes. If so, run REGEDIT, drill down to
HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop, go to File>Export and save it as
Desktop.reg, then find the item in the right-hand side of Registry Editor
called "TileWallpaper", double-click it, and change its value to 0 (zero).
Presuming that fixes your problem, test to see if you can use Display
Properties, particularly the Desktop tab. Change the picture, change it
back, etc. If not able to use the applet, come back for further suggestions.
