Background in Vista not showing up

Hello,
I feel pretty stupid but I can't seem to get any picture I select to show up
as my background. I all I can seem to do is change the color. I have tried
to right click on the picture and save it as my background, as well as going
into the Control Panel, Personalize appearance, desktop background. What am I
missing?

I speaking for Vista Ultimate.

Control Panel>>Appearance and Personalization>>Personalization>>Change
Desktop background>>Browse>> Navigate to your Photo gallery>>find the
picture you want (your girlfriend, mother, kids, etc. Highlight it. Double
click. You will see the picture on the background.

"Hakkoda" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I feel pretty stupid but I can't seem to get any picture I select to show
> up
> as my background. I all I can seem to do is change the color. I have
> tried
> to right click on the picture and save it as my background, as well as
> going
> into the Control Panel, Personalize appearance, desktop background. What
> am I
> missing?

Hakkoda wrote:

> Hello,
> I feel pretty stupid but I can't seem to get any picture I select to show
> up
> as my background. I all I can seem to do is change the color. I have
> tried to right click on the picture and save it as my background, as well
> as going into the Control Panel, Personalize appearance, desktop
> background. What am I missing?

Some people have solved this issue by doing this:

If you can't change Desktop background - Start>Control Panel>Ease of
Access>Ease of Access Center. Under "Make things on the screen easier to
see", deselect the option "Remove background images (where available).
Select "Save".

If that doesn't help, download wallpaper_enable.reg from the following link
- http://www.winhelponline.com/fixes/wallpaper_enable.reg

Save the file to Desktop. Right-click on the file and then choose "Merge".
That fix is from MVP Ramesh and you can trust it.

Malke
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