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I cannot change my background

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Name: bigshow733
Date: January 21, 2008 at 12:00:19 Pacific
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: intel
Product: dell
Comment:

My background has been grayed out and i cannot change my background



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: January 21, 2008 at 12:09:46 Pacific
Reply:

Are you on a Domain?

Life's more painless for the brainless.


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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr
Date: January 21, 2008 at 13:19:18 Pacific
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mmm - One's Karma (background in one sense) is one's Karma...; you're stuck with it - until you burn it orf...


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Response Number 3
Name: Art
Date: January 21, 2008 at 13:31:39 Pacific
Reply:

You are probably infected with Smitfraud
This happen to me and I was only able to fix
it with the Smitfraudfix.

Download SmitfraudFix
http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/Smitfra...



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Response Number 4
Name: devil_himself
Date: January 23, 2008 at 06:41:44 Pacific
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Cannot Change the Desktop Wallpaper
http://malektips.com/windows_xp_dis...


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Response Number 5
Name: Terry Hollett
Date: January 25, 2008 at 17:55:39 Pacific
Reply:

My Sister called me once. She couldn't add a background picture on here desktop.

In this case, I had to dig into the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\System
"Wallpaper"=

I right-clicked on the word Wallpaper and deleted it. It worked.

http://www.geocities.com/terryholle...


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