re: Can't change my desktop background Friday, February 9, 2007 at 3:40 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sali (1 messages posted) I am having this same problem. None of the suggestions have worked, I'm unfamiliar with Tweak UI, how do I find that? On Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 10:11 am, Ed wrote: >I had this problem, or something very like it, and it turned out that (god knows >how) a setting in Tweak UI had somehow been corrupted. > >It baffled me for ages, until I was using the Tweak UI tool one day to do something >else, and noticed that one of the settings had changed. This was months ago, so I >can't quite remember the details, but it might have been the "shell enhancements" >option on the IE tab. > >I do remember that somehow Tweak UI had contrived to disable some of the options >that ought to have been present when I right-clicked on the desktop and selected >"properties". (It may be relevent that I use Tweak UI with "Active Desktop" disabled). > >Re-ticking (or unticking, saving, and re-ticking) the relevent box in Tweak UI was >an easy cure for the problem. > >All of which is a rather long-winded way of saying that some viruses can corrupt >Tweak UI - shame on them! > >Ed > > > Written in response to: re: Can't change my desktop background (Ed: Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 10:11 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Can't change my desktop background (Gary: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 1:03 pm) re: Can't change my desktop background (Candice: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 3:55 pm) re: Can't change my desktop background (JoeYello: Thu, Jan 25, 2007, 7:35 am) re: Can't change my desktop background (Ed: Thu, Jan 25, 2007, 10:11 am) re: Can't change my desktop background (Sali: Fri, Feb 9, 2007, 3:40 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum