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Name: buttercup101671
Date: April 24, 2005 at 07:46:53 Pacific
OS: Windows 98/2nd ed.
CPU/Ram: don't know
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I had spyware...removed it with norton's and adaware software...I had a pic on my background of my children. Noticed that the pic was gone, so I added it as my background again, only the pic is so huge it only has one of my children's face on it...went to control panel/display...there is no background tab...i see some people posted to go to Hkey and I have no idea what that means..please help...thanks.



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Name: Krystyna
Date: April 24, 2005 at 08:23:06 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Joli

You will need to edit the registry.

1. Run REGEDIT

2. Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\System

3. Once at the above location, look on the right hand page for the value
"NoDispBackgroundPage" (DWORD value)

4. You may see that the value is set as 1, so you will have to right click and modify the value to 0

5. If you so not see "NoDispBackgroundPage"
then you will have to create it

Right click the System key and choose to create a new DWORD value, then type
NoDispBackgroundPage
and then set the value as 0

Good luck!


Krystyna [Sydney, Australia]


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Name: buttercup101671
Date: April 25, 2005 at 04:44:30 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks so much Krystyna...that helped...


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Response Number 3
Name: Krystyna
Date: April 25, 2005 at 05:57:43 Pacific
Reply:

You're welcome!

Krystyna [Sydney, Australia]


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Response Number 4
Name: Defiant98
Date: May 28, 2005 at 16:36:38 Pacific
Reply:

Hey guys I had the same problem. I have the background tab back but have some sort of 'Spoof' left on the desktop (background) that I cannot get rid of! Please help!


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