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Friends PC won't let her change the wallpaper. All she has is a blue background. Sometimes it's bright white. In Display Properties the browse button and the wallpaper files are greyed out. So far she's tried system restore, no joy. Norton found something called UCMore which she removed, according to Norton. She also ran Spyware Doctor and Pconpoint and did repairs as needed. Also went to Kelly's Korner and did the Wallpaper/Background fix, no joy there either. It caused the blue, which is bearable, to change back to white, which is atrocious. After deleting her restore points and re-booting the blue is back but the rest is still greyed out. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks Joe |
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Open Regedit and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System (and) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Delete the values "Wallpaper" and "WallPaperStyle" in the right-pane. Close Regedit.exe -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "KF Daddy" <bucket7@noexit.com> wrote in message news:eKD5LbW0GHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Friends PC won't let her change the wallpaper. All she has is a blue background. Sometimes it's bright white. In Display Properties the browse button and the wallpaper files are greyed out. So far she's tried system restore, no joy. Norton found something called UCMore which she removed, according to Norton. She also ran Spyware Doctor and Pconpoint and did repairs as needed. Also went to Kelly's Korner and did the Wallpaper/Background fix, no joy there either. It caused the blue, which is bearable, to change back to white, which is atrocious. After deleting her restore points and re-booting the blue is back but the rest is still greyed out. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks Joe |
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Thanks, that did it when all else failed. Not all the entries were there but the one she deleted was enough to fix it. thanks again Joe "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote in message news:ur7wXNX0GHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... : Open Regedit and navigate to: : : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System : (and) : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System : : Delete the values "Wallpaper" and "WallPaperStyle" in the right-pane. : : Close Regedit.exe : : -- : Regards, : : Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] : Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com |
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Glad that helped, Joe. -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "KF Daddy" <bucket7@noexit.com> wrote in message news:%23Z0qbjc0GHA.772@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... Thanks, that did it when all else failed. Not all the entries were there but the one she deleted was enough to fix it. thanks again Joe "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@XOX.mvps.org> wrote in message news:ur7wXNX0GHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... : Open Regedit and navigate to: : : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System : (and) : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System : : Delete the values "Wallpaper" and "WallPaperStyle" in the right-pane. : : Close Regedit.exe : : -- : Regards, : : Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] : Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com |
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