Perhaps you can set a registry audit to know which app is modifying the
"Wallpaper" value in this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
How to use Group Policy to configure auditing of Windows registry keys:
http://www.winxptutor.com/auditreg.htm
(Written for XP Professional, but might work in Vista also.)
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> > <rich.bove...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> >> Hi,
> >> Please can someone help me with a fustrating issue I have with setting
> >> the desktop background in Vista Home Premium.
> >> I have just purchased a HP Pavilion DV6799EA Special Edition in the UK
> >> with the aforementioned OS. During the installation I was promped to
> >> choose a desktop background and I chose the so called special edition
> >> background which matches the chocolate colour of the laptop lid. See
> >> the link from HP site.
>
> >>http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en...87-38191-38191...
>
> >> The problem I have is that when I change the desktop backgound
> >> (wallpaper) and restart the laptop the dersktop has reverted back to
> >> the desktop I chose during installation. How can I get the laptop to
> >> keep my newly selected desktop?
> >> Hope you can help!
>
> >> By the way, after I restart the laptop and go back into Desktop
> >> Backgounds the desired wallpaper appears immediately without even
> >> selecting it with a mouse click on the radio button!
>
> > It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
> > make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
> > Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
> > IBM Access Connections
> > Kaspersky
> > McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
> > Norton AV
> > Spyware Blaster
> > Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
> > Spybot- Teatimer
> > Spysweeper
> > Spyware Doctor
> > Windows Defender
> > Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.
>
> > In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
> > uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
> > reinstall Zone Alarm.
>
> > Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.
>
> > --
> > Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
> > Do not reply with email
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> Norton needs to be *uninstalled*? Usually all I have to do is turn off
> "Auto-Protect" and then turn it back on again, after doing whatever needs
> to
> be done. Just wondering!
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Thanks for those suggestions I'll give them a try.
I've found a temporary workaround by checking the registry again and
searched for c:\windows\web\wallpaper, the location of default
background images, I found the entry referring to the wallpaper image
HPSproutv2.jpg . I exported the key and then changed the permissions
on the key. I edited this value to a desired wallpaper img18.jpg and
restarted the laptop, hey presto! It's changed the desktop, I have to
do this each time I fancy a change of wallpaper!
HK_USERS\default\control panel\desktop\
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