missing wallpaper

[Guest]

i can not see any wallpaper. it does appear briefly at boot up and at shot
down, but than disapears. in properties, the preview screen is white, and i
am unable to select any of the exsisting images from the menu.
thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Try this:

For Windows XP Professional
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1. Click Start - Run - type GPEDIT.MSC and press Enter
2. Expand to User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Control Panel -
Display
3. On the right-side pane double-click the entry "Prevent Changing Wallpaper"
4. If the value is set to "Not Configured" or "Enable" then set it to
"Disable"

For both Home & Professional edition
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1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press Enter
2. Expand to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer\ActiveDesktop
3. On the right side pane - check if there is an entry
"NoChangingWallpaper". Set its value to 0 by double-clicking or delete the
entry.

If that doesn't help then read what Microsoft has to say about this and
resolution:

Article published by Microsoft regarding the problem:
=====================================================
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921049/


You can try if neither of above works:
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A key in your registry is probably pointing to a deleted file refered to as
desktop.html

If you go into your regedit and follow this path: HKEY_CURRENT
USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/POLICIES/SYSTEM

In there you may see a key that points to the C:\Windows\Web\desktop.html

If you see that key DELETE IT. Your virus software probably found this
hijack desktop viruz and deleted the infected file already.

Hope this help, let us know!

 

[Ayush]

clm.eric wrote ::

i can not see any wallpaper. it does appear briefly at boot up and at shot
down, but than disapears. in properties, the preview screen is white, and i
am unable to select any of the exsisting images from the menu.
thanks in advance.

Run these commands from Start - Run [one/by/one] :
regSvr32 /i shimGvw.dll
regSvr32 /i msHtml.dll

regSvr32 /i shell32.dll


Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi,

See:

Options to change wallpaper may be missing or unavailable on a Windows XP-based computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921049

and

Unable to preview JPG GIF and HTM files in Display Properties dialog:
http://www.winxptutor.com/noimgpreview.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


i can not see any wallpaper. it does appear briefly at boot up and at shot
down, but than disapears. in properties, the preview screen is white, and i
am unable to select any of the exsisting images from the menu.
thanks in advance.