I haven't a clue what happened but basically today when i turned on the pc i noticed theres like a background color on all the folders on the desktop.Any way to turn this off and make it transparent again?
View 4 RepliesCan folders have background images like the desktop can?I'm trying to organize some folders to be like the desktop. Anyone know if it's possible?I have Windows XP pro SP2
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen i switched it on, i couldn't see my wallpaper, but just a black screen. I tried changing it back to the wallpaper, but even though the wallpaper seemed to change, i still could only see a black screen. The wallpaper is there, because when i close a game it appears for a second, then gets back to the black screen. It's like it is being covered by the background colour. Everything is still working fine, and i can use all the icons on my desktop, however a black desktop is very annoying
View 6 Replies View RelatedYes I realize this is a very dumb question XDD. I still need an answer.I've went to -->Properties-->Display and still can't find where you specifically change the font colour on the desktop.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have got this request from one of our Senior Group Members: I am desperately trying to change the font colour on my desktop from white to a colour that is more easily read. I have Windows XP and am now wondering if white printing on the desktop is not "set in concrete".
View 5 Replies View RelatedLet's say, for example, I had an icon on my desktop for My Documents. Is there any way to make the text "My Documents" black instead of white, because I cant see the white text on my white desktop picture.
View 2 Replies View Relatedthe Background button is gone and i can't change it it is flat blue Help
View 2 Replies View RelatedAt startup 2 days ago my desktop colour scheme was reset to classic with grey taskbar etc. When I tried to change it back to silver I found that the windows xp style in display properties appearance windows and buttons, was gone and only windows classic style was present. Confused I though maybe I needed to do a windows update. I proceeded to do so and while I was at it updated to SP3. After doing this I could successfully change my colour scheme back to silver and change the size of my active title bar and menu font etc back to the way they were. But now whenever I restart my PC the colour scheme has reverted back to the default blue xp theme and the size changes back to default as well.I'm at a aloss because I have windows auto updates turned off and had installed no new software the night before this happened.I should also add that I have already done a virus scan, Malwarebytes Anti-malware scan and a Spybot search and destroy scan but found nothing.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to change the background wallpaper on fodlers for Windows XP. I know how to do it on Windows ME, but I can't figure out where the hell you can customize
your folders so that there's a different background other than the white slate that's already preset for all folders.
A friend has a Compaq laptop running Windows XP. When you power up the system, the Windows XP logo screen comes up and then the desktop background comes up but it stops there. You never get any desktop icons or taskbar so there is no way to navigate. If anyone has any suggestions on how to debug this it would be appreciated. Thanks.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have two computers, both running XP Home SP 1. On the desktop at home, I use a JPG image as my Desktop Background. On the laptop at school, I can't use a JPG. I have to use a BMP. The BMP file is about 7 times larger than the JPG file. Question: How do I tweak the laptop to let me use a JPG file as a Desktop background?
View 3 Replies View RelatedDesktop 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 RelatedHow you set your desktop background permanently. At the minute I loose the picture every time I re-boot or undock the laptop from the docking station.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am having difficulty changing my desktop wallpaper. No matter what I do, I cannot put a different picture or wallpaper on the desktop. I have already tried using the right click on the desktop and going into the properties that way. It won't even let me select any of the options for the wallpaper. And I used to be able to go to my photo files and just pick one, right click on it and select the "set as desktop background" option. But now it won't let me change it at all.
View 1 Replies View Relatedonly this i can change it to is colors but i see that when i go to shutdown the pc just befor it shuts down i see a quick flash of what i tryd to put on my desktop, so i try to change it and it dosent change but i go to shutdown and i see agen for a sec it pops up with what i tryd to change it to. does anyone know whats going on here?
View 14 Replies View RelatedLook at my pc if you notice the blue xp backround is gone what happen. http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/710/pcxi8.jpg
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need help deleting some pictures from my desktop background (Appearances & Themes-Change Desktop Background-Display Properties-Desktop-Background).
View 14 Replies View Relatedi went to a website today and downloaded a winxp backcround picture and when i clicked the picture to set as background it set it okay, but it was showing the picture as multiples of small pictures that filled the screen.can some tell me how to make it one whole picture that fills the screen.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI can change the desktop wallpaper background to a personal pic, by using the browse button. no problem, but it won't keep the pic in the list of available backgrounds. it will keep the background i choose until i want to change it, but as soon as i switch, that pic disappears and if i want to change back, i have to use the browse button all over again. running xp home not a major problem, but annoying.if there is a quick fix i can't find it.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi am using windows XP professional and recently my computer's desktop has been having some problems, it was working fine this morning then i turned it on just now and my desktop is blue, i cannot change the background, i cannot unlock my taskbar or see icons in my start menu, i have no clue what could have caused this to happen
View 7 Replies View RelatedI cannot change the desktop background by going to Settings>>Control panel>>Display>>Desktop due to subj. reason. Why is this option blocked & how to acivate it again ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I login into Windows XP pro following a normal boot up, within a couple of seconds the top half of my screen cannot be accessed my desktop shrinks about half way down the screen.If I load an application it only opens /maximises in that portion of the screen.However, the actual desktop background remains unchanged!
It very weird because if I login under a different user this does not happen.It seems that my screen is acting as virtual screen?I have checked the settings and nothing seems different.
Because item removed by owner. Each time I try to put a new display background - It deletes it and does the same message as a background. Is this a virus?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOne of the best features of Win XP is to use any image from any image folder as your desktop background, wallpaper. For some reason this feature has stopped working and of course I have no idea why. I haven't changed any folder options or made any changes for that matter.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi was working on a computer the other day helping someone "clean it up" and make it run faster. i did all the normal "clean up" stuff, got her back online, pc running much faster, everyone's happy.except for one thing: one of her original complaints was that her desktop background had recently reverted to all RED with this image in the middle that looks something like a biohazard logo. i tried changing the desktop background via the control panel, and it changed momentarily and then reverted back only moments later. I ran avg anti-virus and spybot to sweep her machine of any bugs/viruses (and found quite a few). when i left the red desktop was gone.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI struggle to explain this one. This is a duplicate setup - i have two systems very nearly identical, both HP DC7600's, full-up 4GB RAM, 160GB HD, fairly fresh Windows XP Professional SP3, typical applications: MS Office, Picasa, iTunes, Realplayer, Google Chrome browser, blah blah. Nothing exotic.One of them, after being left with a half dozen tabs open in Chrome, and not much else going on other than AVAST Antivirus running in background, upon checking back in with the Screen Saver "On" [starfield], no password needed, the screen/display freezes on the background image, and nothing else pops up on screen except the mouse cursor.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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 RelatedIt seems that I am the likely victim of an exploit of some sort, but I have been unable to find any information on it.The hardware is an IBM desktop, running Windows 2000.Somewhere along the line, I discovered that when I do a ctrl-alt-delete, the "background image" that appears has been replaced with a porn image. This is also the same background that appears during the Windows start and shutdown sequence, before/after the desktop appears.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI Cannot Change My Desktop Background. I Have A Blue Screen. When I Click In Properties, Then Click Desktop My Brouse Button And Stretch Buttons Are Gray. How Can I Fix This Problem
View 3 Replies View RelatedI know is this going to sound very "lame", but here goes. My wife like the desktop theme for the seascape, it has the ships wheel when working and for the mouse is a sea shell. Very nice. But, the background is a light tan colored and I hate it, I would like the plain white background. Is there a way to keep the sea theme and still get a white background?
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