customization issues

**sunkist89** · October 24, 2006, 09:49 PM

my desktop suddenly quit allowing me to change the bg, ive tried system restore and uninstalling anything recently installed. i right click the desktop and click properties, i then go to the desktop tab and eveything is unselectable. i cannot browse for a pic and the standard bg are unselectable. can someone help me?

**Aristocrat** · October 24, 2006, 10:44 PM

Two words: Windows Permissions

Only administrators of windows can do this so it seems someone has changed your account settings from admin to user.

**sunkist89** · October 25, 2006, 01:37 AM

i am the windows admin!!

**Aristocrat** · October 25, 2006, 05:41 AM

Hmm, well then my next guess is spyware, malware, or a virus.
Try scanning for all of these.
But to be honest I've only seen this on accounts with limited windows rights, commonly the ones used in companies, universities, etc, where people have a roaming account and space is a priority.
You could always google it and see what turns up (if you haven't already).

**sunkist89** · October 26, 2006, 05:21 AM

that was the first thing i did before checkin permissions, the other account(limited acct) has no problems

**sunkist89** · October 26, 2006, 01:58 PM

ok, i shutdown my computer and as it was in the lg off status of the shutdown the bg showed up i turned it back on and the bg was up, when it finished loading the bg disappeared agian, i cleared cookies and temp internet files and ran spysweeper and norton(both up to date) and nothing was found. anything else you can tell me that may help?

**Aristocrat** · October 26, 2006, 06:02 PM

go here
Go to line 142 and try it. (I had to resort to a google search myself).

**sunkist89** · October 27, 2006, 09:36 PM

did i need to save them? i ran them and they said successful, but nothings changed

**Aristocrat** · October 28, 2006, 03:03 AM

To use the Regedits: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.

To use the VBS Files: Download .vbs file and save it to your hard drive (you may want to right click and use Save Target As). Double
click the vbs file. You will be prompted when the script is done.

Answer: I don't know...but give it a try anyway.

**sunkist89** · October 28, 2006, 07:09 PM

stupid computer... still not working

**Aristocrat** · October 29, 2006, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by sunkist89

stupid computer... still not working

You could perhaps try a repair of windows using your windows cd...but I have little hope it will hope...windows repair almost never helps me.

**sunkist89** · October 30, 2006, 09:51 PM

ok, cant find my cd... dont think i had one

**sunkist89** · October 30, 2006, 10:45 PM

ok, new stuff, i asked one of my friends from school, he said go to processes and end explorer.exe it worked but there was no long anything on the screen(start bar, icons) so can u get any info from this to figure it out???

one more thing, i found a new program in my add/remove program list (microsoft user-mode driver framework feature pack 1.0 (beta2)) is this actually something i need or could it be teh problem??