taffygun Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. must of been all that porn mother board could not take it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbivvy Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. must of been all that porn,my mother could not take it rob, dont let her near your pc mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 What operating system are you using ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzyboi Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 If your using windows 2000 make sure that its not the "Active desktop" warning message, if it is, enable active desktop and you will have your wallpaper back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. Thanx Mark... that helps Cranfield/Dazzyboi its XP but i'm ashamed to say its a moody copy of XP..... I had that spysheriff download itself yesterday but i've rebooted into safe mode and run AVG anti-virus and spyware and spybot and ad-aware and they done their stuff.... rebooted and still no wallpaper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Did you load the picture from removable media, like a usb key, or similar? If you didn't and the picture is still on your pc you just have to find it and re-set it as your wallpaper. You will need to know what you called it or where you saved it, otherwise it could be long search. I don't think any hardware is broken if you have told us all that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Have you tried to set a different image as your wall paper ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Did you load the picture from removable media, like a usb key, or similar?If you didn't and the picture is still on your pc you just have to find it and re-set it as your wallpaper. You will need to know what you called it or where you saved it, otherwise it could be long search. I don't think any hardware is broken if you have told us all that happened. No its a picture that has been loaded onto my computer... it was a pic taken by digital camera of my 2 daughters...I know exactly where it is and i've highlighted the pic and right-click and set as desktop background but nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Have you tried to set a different image as your wall paper ? Yes I have fella... I've tried setting a picture as explained above... by right-click etc and also through my properties menu. It will not allow me to choose a picture from the scroll down list to set a wallpaper... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Try going to your Control Panel > select Display > select Desktop > either select Browse and select a picture from your PC, or test it with one of the MS options. I can't think what else could be wrong, unless its a hardware issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter-peter Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. Thanx Mark... that helps B) :blink: Cranfield/Dazzyboi its XP but i'm ashamed to say its a moody copy of XP..... I had that spysheriff download itself yesterday but i've rebooted into safe mode and run AVG anti-virus and spyware and spybot and ad-aware and they done their stuff.... rebooted and still no wallpaper do. start, programs accessories. system tools, system restore. set restore to a date prior to your problem, see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Try going to your Control Panel > select Display > select Desktop > either select Browse and select a picture from your PC, or test it with one of the MS options. I can't think what else could be wrong, unless its a hardware issue. Tried that... Won't allow the browse or select another pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Try going to your Control Panel > select Display > select Desktop > either select Browse and select a picture from your PC, or test it with one of the MS options. I can't think what else could be wrong, unless its a hardware issue. Tried that... Won't allow the browse or select another pic B) What I can't understand is everything else is working.... a mate talked me through the registry editor and we checked that out and it shows nothing has changed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I've lost my desktop picture.... its just a blank white screen now where I had a pic of my kids.....it happened all of a sudden and I can't put it back... i've tried opening the properties and it won't allow me to even choose a background or screensaver and i've tried opening the pic I want and right-click and 'use as desktop background' but nothing works..... anyone..? hi Darren. that happened to me the other week mate. then the week after it went bang. new mother board and ram. Thanx Mark... that helps B) :blink: Cranfield/Dazzyboi its XP but i'm ashamed to say its a moody copy of XP..... I had that spysheriff download itself yesterday but i've rebooted into safe mode and run AVG anti-virus and spyware and spybot and ad-aware and they done their stuff.... rebooted and still no wallpaper do. start, programs accessories. system tools, system restore. set restore to a date prior to your problem, see what happens. Tried that - it won't allow restores.... keeps saying the restore has been unsuccessful and no changes were made to your computer I think i'm gonna enjoy taking it out on the farm and putting several carts and lots of .222 rounds through it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Right click and choose save as on this link here Double click on the file and say yes to the import script, reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Right click and choose save as on this link here Double click on the file and say yes to the import script, reboot. It didn't solve my problem with the wallpaper Pin but it made my computer reboot and reload quicker B) :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ok then try this. Download and save Cleandesktop to your computer from this link: http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/cleandesktop.exe and double click on the cleandesktop.exe It will automatically extract to c:\desktopclean where it needs to be to run and will automatically run the cleandesktop.vbs script If it doesn't open then go to c:\desktopclean and double click on the cleandesktop.vbs Do not run any other file from there please unless asked to If you have script blocking enabled you will get a warning about a malicious script wanting to run. Please allow this script to run. It is not malicious. If you get a message when you first run it "Can not find script file "blah blah blah" then don't worry just doubleclick the cleandesktop.vbs script again you sometimes get that message when a script blocker blocks the script It will then kill Explorer. You will lose your taskbar and desktop. It will repair the registry entries returning your normal desktop and context menu functions. It will restart Explorer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ok then try this. Download and save Cleandesktop to your computer from this link: http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/cleandesktop.exe and double click on the cleandesktop.exe It will automatically extract to c:\desktopclean where it needs to be to run and will automatically run the cleandesktop.vbs script If it doesn't open then go to c:\desktopclean and double click on the cleandesktop.vbs Do not run any other file from there please unless asked to If you have script blocking enabled you will get a warning about a malicious script wanting to run. Please allow this script to run. It is not malicious. If you get a message when you first run it "Can not find script file "blah blah blah" then don't worry just doubleclick the cleandesktop.vbs script again you sometimes get that message when a script blocker blocks the script It will then kill Explorer. You will lose your taskbar and desktop. It will repair the registry entries returning your normal desktop and context menu functions. It will restart Explorer. O.k before I do that, I do not use IE I use AOL as my internet explorere... will this make any difference..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Shouldn't, the explorer I mean is windows explorer, rather than internet explorer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Shouldn't, the explorer I mean is windows explorer, rather than internet explorer. Gotta say this Pin... you're ****** good.... very good... you're a diamond fella...if we ever meet I won't just buy you a pint... the whole night is on me.... as long as you only drink one pint B) :blink: So what do you think it was Pin..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Hard to say what did it, but I knew what it had done from your description of the problem B) You'd be regretting offering an evenings drinking if you'd met me Glad I could help mate :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taffygun Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Hard to say what did it, but I knew what it had done from your description of the problem You'd be regretting offering an evenings drinking if you'd met me B) Glad I could help mate If I couldn't have solved this by the weekend, seriously considering putting a few carts into it You're a diamond M8 - Thank You :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 I've all the time in the world to help other people, when mine plays up I tend to kick it I kicked a PC down the stairs once, no word of a lie. Motherboard cracked, bodged that with a bit of fag packet and it ran for a year after that B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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