Changing the desktop background

Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to change
the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had a
family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point of
selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it! Very
frustrating. Any ideas?

Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories and right-click
on the Command Prompt and choose "Run as administrator".
Type in: SFC /SCANNOW and press your Enter key.

If that does not work, try doing a System Restore
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"JaY-mAn" <JaY-> wrote in message
news:18D2E173-1535-4B30-B99B-...
> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to
> change
> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had
> a
> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point
> of
> selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it!
> Very
> frustrating. Any ideas?

I have seen this before on a domain, it was a corrupt profile,

try using another profile/login to see if all works ok & then if possible
delete "old" profile
"JaY-mAn" <JaY-> wrote in message
news:18D2E173-1535-4B30-B99B-...
> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to
> change
> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had
> a
> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point
> of
> selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it!
> Very
> frustrating. Any ideas?

yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop background at
all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos with
mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my desktop!!

"JaY-mAn" wrote:

> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to change
> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had a
> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point of
> selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it! Very
> frustrating. Any ideas?

"Chrisy" <> wrote in message
news:032313E2-F2F0-4905-A7B3-...
> yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop background
> at
> all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos with
> mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my desktop!!
>
> "JaY-mAn" wrote:
>
>> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to
>> change
>> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
>> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had
>> a
>> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point
>> of
>> selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
>> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it!
>> Very
>> frustrating. Any ideas?

What do you want to change it to?
Have you right clicked a blank spot on the desktop and selected Personalize?

--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
Do not reply with email

"Chrisy" wrote:

> yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop background at
> all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos with
> mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my desktop!!
>
> "JaY-mAn" wrote:
>
> > Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to change
> > the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
> > noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had a
> > family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point of
> > selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
> > happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it! Very
> > frustrating. Any ideas?

I have the same problem on my brand new computer. i browse to a folder that I
know is full of jpg photo's and vista says its empty and " no items match
your search"

"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" wrote:

> "Chrisy" <> wrote in message
> news:032313E2-F2F0-4905-A7B3-...
> > yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop background
> > at
> > all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos with
> > mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my desktop!!
> >
> > "JaY-mAn" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to
> >> change
> >> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
> >> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had
> >> a
> >> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point
> >> of
> >> selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
> >> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it!
> >> Very
> >> frustrating. Any ideas?
>
> What do you want to change it to?
> Have you right clicked a blank spot on the desktop and selected Personalize?
>
> --
> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
> Do not reply with email
>
>

I'm not sure what you've done but you can try this --it sometimes helps.

"bill" <> wrote in message
news:4F43ED17-6EBC-42EA-9923-...
> I have the same problem on my brand new computer. i browse to a folder
> that I
> know is full of jpg photo's and vista says its empty and " no items match
> your search"
>
> "Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" wrote:
>
>> "Chrisy" <> wrote in message
>> news:032313E2-F2F0-4905-A7B3-...
>> > yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop
>> > background
>> > at
>> > all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos
>> > with
>> > mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my
>> > desktop!!
>> >
>> > "JaY-mAn" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to
>> >> change
>> >> the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image?
>> >> I
>> >> noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I
>> >> had
>> >> a
>> >> family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the
>> >> point
>> >> of
>> >> selecting the image I want then after the choice is
>> >> made........nothing
>> >> happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's
>> >> it!
>> >> Very
>> >> frustrating. Any ideas?
>>
>> What do you want to change it to?
>> Have you right clicked a blank spot on the desktop and selected
>> Personalize?
>>
>> --
>> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
>> Do not reply with email
______________________

Hi Bill/Chrisy too wherever her post is--

I'm not sure what you all have done but try this--it sometimes fixes this:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/ca...wallpaper-fix/


To restore the ability to change the desktop Wallpaper in your system,
download the file wallpaper_enable.reg for Windows 2000/XP/Vista systems,
and save the file to your Desktop. Right-click wallpaper_enable.reg and
choose Merge to apply the settings.

The REG file removes the Wallpaper Policy setting from the following
registry locations

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ System
Windows Vista specific setting

Click 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.

You should be able to change the desktop background now.

Good luck,

CH

On 2009-04-25, bill <> wrote:
>
>
> "Chrisy" wrote:
>
>> yes yes!! im on vista home preium and i cant change my desktop background at
>> all!! its really P****N me off because i have loads of group photos with
>> mates from raves i go to...... im gutted i cant use them on my desktop!!
>>
>> "JaY-mAn" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi I was wondering if anyone has experienced a problem when trying to change
>> > the desktop background from a plain colour to any other type of image? I
>> > noticed the background was simply black one day when the day before I had a
>> > family photo loaded. Personalisation goes perfectly even up to the point of
>> > selecting the image I want then after the choice is made........nothing
>> > happens. All I can do is change the colour of the background, that's it! Very
>> > frustrating. Any ideas?

Have you tried opening your image in IE or FF and setting it that way?


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