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Catti
When I booted my Vista Business laptop this morning the wallpaper had gone
black. I used to use a pic from my Pictures folder as my background. Now I
can no longer access picture files or thumbnails through the Desktop
Background applet in Control Panel. When I try to browse to the Pictures
folder it appears empty. When I mouse over the contents, I get blank
transparent boxes with the picture names, instead of thumbnails. If I try to
use a Windows background picture, the thumbnails there are pixellated generic
icons. The only background I can set is Solid Colour. I can change colours
but that's it. There's no error message when I try to change my wallpaper. My
user account is an Administrator (both domain and local) and I don't use
screen savers. I've already tried the following suggestions from this board
(rebooted after each step):
- Checked Group Policy settings, made sure all items under User
Configuration\Admin. templates\Desktop\Desktop are set to "not configured"
- Checked Ease of Use settings, backgrounds are NOT disabled
- Downloaded and "merged" the "wallpaper enable" reg file from Winhelp
- Downloaded/ran KB Hotfix 934008
- Tried steps in Vista Tutorial on disabling/enabling desktop changes,
including other links to reg hacks (none of which worked).
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
black. I used to use a pic from my Pictures folder as my background. Now I
can no longer access picture files or thumbnails through the Desktop
Background applet in Control Panel. When I try to browse to the Pictures
folder it appears empty. When I mouse over the contents, I get blank
transparent boxes with the picture names, instead of thumbnails. If I try to
use a Windows background picture, the thumbnails there are pixellated generic
icons. The only background I can set is Solid Colour. I can change colours
but that's it. There's no error message when I try to change my wallpaper. My
user account is an Administrator (both domain and local) and I don't use
screen savers. I've already tried the following suggestions from this board
(rebooted after each step):
- Checked Group Policy settings, made sure all items under User
Configuration\Admin. templates\Desktop\Desktop are set to "not configured"
- Checked Ease of Use settings, backgrounds are NOT disabled
- Downloaded and "merged" the "wallpaper enable" reg file from Winhelp
- Downloaded/ran KB Hotfix 934008
- Tried steps in Vista Tutorial on disabling/enabling desktop changes,
including other links to reg hacks (none of which worked).
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,