Having some issues with the background settings. They are locked so that they may not be edited. My background picture does appear when the Windows Security box is called up using Ctrl+Alt+Del. I am on a simple home network. Any ideas? I'd appreciate the help. -- Faaaaaaaantastic. --

When you try to edit them, do you get a message to the effect of "Editing the display properties is disabled by the administrator"? Are you logged in as an administrator? -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Unfortunately no. I wish it were that easy. I'm the administrator and the only user on the computer, so there's just the one single account. -- Faaaaaaaantastic. --

In what way are they "locked"? -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

If I right click on my desktop and select Properties, under the Background tab the Browse button is grayed out, the words "Select a background picture or HTML document as wallpaper" are grayed out, and I can't choose any of the options in the dialog box that contains all my wallpapers. All I can see is that "None" is selected and it shows a picture of my desktop as just totally black. The only thing that I can do under the background tab is to select "Pattern" and edit that. -- Faaaaaaaantastic. --

Open Regedit and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System (and) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies \System At both those locations, there shouldn't be anything displayed in the right hand pane (in particular anything that mentions "Wallpaper"). -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Thank you! Worked perfectly. There was a registry entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System entitled Wallpaper that I deleted and now I can edit them. Thank you so much for your help, bud! -- Faaaaaaaantastic. --