I am unable to modify the Desktop background (in the Display options). Regardless of whatever choice I make I always get a white background.Avast Anti-viruss scan found no viruses and 'Malwarebytes' found no malware. I tried System Restore' but it cannot restore.I turned off and on the PC, unplugged it from the mains but to no avail.The problem started after removing some malware using Ad-Aware.
View 1 RepliesDesktop preview screen is blank, however, the image does display on the desktop. Background images with bitmap icon will display in preview, but not those with what appears to be a film icon. Some of the regular Windows images, i.e. Azul, Windows XP, etc. have the film icon, and do not display in preview.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn display i have desktop themes and background choices. i imported a picture from my computer,from using the browse function but it imported the whole folder of pictures. how do i remove the pictures it imported into this background box please. this is slowing my dell down to a snails pace on start up and shut down.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI got a huge hullabaloo and 'Malwarealarm' installed randomly ( I got it from a popup when Firefox told me the site was spywarefilled) and the computer was fine. I restart once, and I loose my background, my ability to select a background from the 'Desktop' tab under rightclick-properties on the desktop itself became null (just a black screen), and proceed to try a myriad of things. Installed the new DirectX driver, new ATI Videocard driver, DirectX9.0, rolled back to ATI Xtasy driver, then tried installing DirectX9.0 again. Run virusscan and spywarescans, got rid of a bunch of stupid cookies. When I login or logout of Windows, my old background appears for a second, then disappears once more.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy sister-in-laws' desktop will not display a background. The screen briefly shows her picture and then turns blue and only displays her desktop icons.The display background choices in the control panel are all inoperable and the little screen showing the display preview is white. I had previously changed the font setting from extra large to medium and these settings work.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUntil recently just the usual Windows files in the Background file list in Display Properties/Desktop. Recently the list grows day by day it seems with a variety of files from My Pictures folder. Now takes quite a while to open the desktop option. Possibly linked to Picasa some way. How can I get rid of them without deleting the photo file ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI imported a picture from my docs and somehow it imported the whole folder which has slowed my computer on start up and shut down. how can i remove these pictures from this background box permanently
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently updated with the Windows XP Service Pack 3 [KB936929] = [Via Using the XP computer's "Windows Update"] All this install was without a hic cup It is odd as I feel before I had the screensaver of a background showing a Grey like colour Since updating with the SP3 my computer is now has a "Black" background behind all Windows screensavers Can one change/modify the colour of the windows screensaver background
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I right-click, and get the Display Properties, I only have three tabs: Themes, Appearances and Settings. I no longer have Screen Saver and DeskTop tabs
I'm not sure when they disappeared, but most likely when I had a virus. I've gotten rid of the virus, but the Screen Saver is gone.
I'm running Windows XP, of course. How can I get my tabs back?
I am unable to change my desktop background. I had a virus problem and it appears the virus had been removed but when I restart a message appears that I am still infected I scanned with ATT McAfee and it says I am not infected.
View 10 Replies View Relatedi cannot change the desktop background..every time i will open the properties-desktop the only thing i can change is the color,i cannot even click the browse because its gray(cannot be click) and i cannot scroll the the backgrounds.i try changing the desktop background in nvidia, there i can browse the pictures i want to become the wallpaper but eventhough i apply the settings the desktop is still the same it did not change.
View 46 Replies View Relatedi cannot change the desktop background..every time i will open the properties-desktop the only thing i can change is the color,i cannot even click the browse because its gray(cannot be click) and i cannot scroll the the backgrounds.i try changing the desktop background in nvidia, there i can browse the pictures i want to become the wallpaper but eventhough i apply the settings the desktop is still the same it did not change.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi recently had a couple of trojans on my computer. they started to make my computer crash alot and they changed my background to a huge warning sign..it had said warning your computer is infested with many trojans malware and adware. i ran alot of scans and now i am very sure that its all cleaned up. But when i try to access my taskmanager i cannot. i have read another thread wich told me to type in taskmngr.exe or something like that the run thing but it just said task manager has been disabled by admin. how to reenable it and i am the admin. also when i try to change my background via right click>properties>desktop where i should be able to scroll through the backgrounds is all locked up and disabled.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm being driven insane by this. An office laptop running XP Home was riddled with malware - spyfighter, pcadprotector, CSW.HomeSearch etc. I've managed to remove them all after a full day of hassle but I'm still left with a frustrating issue in that I cannot adjust the desktop background. The properties box is greyed out for backgrounds. We have a simple peer to peer network (workgroup in fact) and no internal security or policies. What can I do before I throw the thing out of the window?
View 10 Replies View RelatedYesterday I wanted to change desktop background,but I was unable to use arrows (up or down ) and cannot click on any displayed selection I ran AVG and found 4 viruses (trojan Renos) and many spywares all are in a vault,but background still not working.I downloaded Hijackthis and created log file.Could someone please tell me how I can uploaded to Cnet and hopefuly get help in identify the problem? Thank you.
View 20 Replies View RelatedTrying to help a friend of mine. He had added a shortcut to his desktop, says was active shortcut, ever since then has not been able to change desktop, its white (none) . I went to the sreen to change it and selected the one he wanted . I then closed the system and rebooted, when it first comes up,the background is correct, but when loads icons it reverts to a white background.
View 3 Replies View Relatedthe Background button is gone and i can't change it it is flat blue Help
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have user who created a few ecrypted MS Office docs on the home drive. Instead of using the encrypted folder, the user ecrypted the individual files. The user is unable to do anything with those encrypted files. Copy, move, unencrypte none of them works. The user is running Win XP SP2 and the file server is WS2003 R2 SP1.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have ended up with 4 different options for XP Pro when my computer starts. This is, basically, as a result of me re-installing Widows a couple of times to try and solve a very slow running system (more help needed there but I will start a new thread for that).How do I remove the 3 unwanted start options?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have windows xp and Im having trouble with my background. When I go into display properties, under background I cant select any backgrounds. It stays one solid color and behind that is a background.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedEvery image I place an image in 'My Pictures' folder it is by default being placed in my Background list.I would prefer to use the browse function in Display Properties>
Background to select which images to add to the list.As it set up right now I will eventually end up with an unwieldy number of images in the list.What can I do to change this.
I was using wallpaper spinner which made my background change every minute. I have been using it for almost a year and never had any problems with it. Now when i go into properties to put a wallpaper up they are all grayed out and i only have the option of a color for my background. Anyone have ANY idea on why it cant display pictures and only colors? I have went into my pictures and right clicked and hit set as background and nothing happens i cant even use pictures that came on the computer for wallpaper and my wallpaper spinner was running and it wasn't even showing anything on the background.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP Professional with SP2. I would like to change the background display on my computer.But it not visible under display properties.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedwhen I go to set a picture as the desktop background it stretches it to fit, fine... but if you dont want everyone looking wide you set it to centre but when I do that it zooms right in on the picture instead of displaying it in its original size on the screen.... why is this? is it because the picture from the camera is massive or is this an XP bug?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn Windows XP, is there any way to remove the list of "My Pictures" from the wallpaper (background) list in Display Properties? Every picture I've saved from the Internet and every picture I've saved from my digital camera appears in the list of background pictures that can be chosen from the "Desktop" tab in Display Properties. MOST of these pictures would be inappropriate as desktop wallpaper so I'd rather not have them as choices in the list (menu). In addition, there are hundreds of them! I don't want to delete them from "My Pictures" however.
View 3 Replies View Relatedwhen I open my Display Properties and move to the Desktop tab and choose Browse to choose a picture to set as my background, after I have selected Open and the box closes, the Apply button is unavailable and the image I chose does not appear in my list or in the preview. I've also taken notice that certain images that were once in the list of available backgrounds images, such as Ascent, Autumn and Azul no longer appear to be available. Right clicking on an image and choosing Set as desktop background does not work, and neither does choosing the same option from the Picture Tasks. Does anybody have any idea what has happened and how I can restore whatever settings I may have changed without applying a system restore?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am experiencing pixelization problems. At first it would only occur at boot up or reboot. Now it is happening all the time which can be help somewhat by refresh, changing the desktop picture, and/or logging off then on I have tried, disabling the 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro using device manager. At first it was OK but at low resolution (VGA I think), but when it asked if I wanted to let windows manage the graphics it got garbled again. I have reset resolutions down to 800 x 600 using the graphics card but that doesn't help.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a screensaver of a type like a moving banner across the display. A banner or flag that can have it texture or background customized from artwork that I choose or have made. If I am not clear, I need to have a picture or artwork I have stored or created on my pc move about the screen in screensaver mode. What should I be looking for?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi am dual booting xp mce and vista.. and im wondering if its possible to change the displayed names because xp shows up as "earlier windows version" or something like that and i'd rather it just say xp
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