The computer was infected with a virus and now I am unable to get my background to change it's just a black background and I want something better. I right click and it only shows screen saver and setting tabs and nothing for the background like it usually does and I even try control panel and all that crap and still the same thing. Someone please try to help me. The computer was supposedly fixed by those geniuses at best buy.
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Jump to Postme to and im using xp home ,so maybe thats only avabile in xp pro ,i will see if i can find any more info
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caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
The computer was infected with a virus and now I am unable to get my background to change it's just a black background and I want something better. I right click and it only shows screen saver and setting tabs and nothing for the background like it usually does and I even try control panel and all that crap and still the same thing. Someone please try to help me. The computer was supposedly fixed by those geniuses at best buy.
hi ,welcome to DaniWeb ,this might help .
desktop missing
mhbitethebullet 0 Newbie Poster
i tried typing in gpedit.msc under run and an error pops up saying it cant find the gpedit.msc.
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
me to and im using xp home ,so maybe thats only avabile in xp pro ,i will see if i can find any more info
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Check this article of mine out, where I've described the procedures to disable features from the Display proiperties box. If the settings are present in the registry, setting them to a '0' value will enable them again
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/5C9BC92ADA7D6FEBCA256F62003707F8
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
that will work to lock it ,but won't restore the missing desktop feature in the display properties ,will it !
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Those tweaks work by disabling tabs from display properties by creating Registry keys and setting their value to '1'. If they are present, setting the value to '0' will enable the display Properties tabs again.
The relevent Ragistry key DWord for the Desktop tab is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/CurrentVersion/Policies/NoDispBackgroundPage
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