Images won't save as Desktop Backgrounds

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Wondering if anyone can help wth this. On Windows XP I had a photo from My
Pictures set as a desktop background. Now screen is blue after turning on
and I cannot save anything in My Pictures as a desktop background.
When I go into the desktop properties and go to Themes I can click on any of
the themes but nothing changes after clicking on Apply. When I go into
backgrounds I can no longer use the drop down box to choose a background as
it is unhighlited. When I shutdown XP the image that I originally had on the
desktop appears briefly befor the computer turns off.
Any problem solving techniques for this would be greatly appreciated.
 
Talatriel said:
Wondering if anyone can help wth this. On Windows XP I had a photo from
My
Pictures set as a desktop background. Now screen is blue after turning on
and I cannot save anything in My Pictures as a desktop background.
When I go into the desktop properties and go to Themes I can click on any
of
the themes but nothing changes after clicking on Apply. When I go into
backgrounds I can no longer use the drop down box to choose a background
as
it is unhighlited. When I shutdown XP the image that I originally had on
the desktop appears briefly befor the computer turns off.
Any problem solving techniques for this would be greatly appreciated.
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Malke
 
I had this poblem after I installed a free sceensaver program named Wallery Wallpaper. It seemed to override my attempts to save any other image as XP background. My computer kept booting to the Wallery background after briefly displaying my image. After uninstalling Wallery my computer now boots with my preferred image which I had saved to My Pictures. Hope you find this helpful.
 
I had this probem after installing a free desktop wallpaper program called Wallery Wallpaper, which apparently overrode all my attemps to save other images for the desktop. After uninstalling this program I was able to save other images to desktop.
 
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