Unable to change windows Vista Wallpaper

thorrrr · Sep 24, 2012

Hello
Guys spent hours mucking around with registry entries from lots of forums on how to enable the change of Win Vista wallpaper. My elderly mother wants her pets on on when I connect across on LogmeIn the facility to do it is not allowing me to do it.

I can change solid color easily but image or themes it is not allowing it please help me guys

To assist please see registry entries I have noticed in No4 NoActiveDesktop I have tried deleting this 2 times but comes back on bootup!!
Hope these images help

Brink · Sep 24, 2012

Hello Thorrrr, and welcome to Vista Forums.

In addition, you might use the find and find next feature in the registry to search for any NoChangingWallpaper and No Changing Wall Paper DWORD values. If any of these DWORD values are found, delete them. I'm not sure why your's would have spaces in it, since it's not suppose to and sohuldn't work if it did.

When finished, restart the computer to apply.

Hope this helps,

Shawn

thorrrr · Sep 25, 2012

Tried everything but nothing works

Also looked at your article http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/107383-desktop-background-wallpaper-prevent-change.html#post683891

thorrrr · Sep 25, 2012

Hi guys I tried the link to th eold post but the fix which was

There may be some Policies in place. To determine that, use the following steps:

Press WinKey + R to bring up the Run dialog.
Type the following command (single line, no line wrap) and press ENTER

cmd /k reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /s

Copy the Command Prompt output and include in your reply.

This does nothing for me in my system!!!!!

I also tried the registry merge he mentions no use there is something blocking me.

Brink · Sep 25, 2012

What edition of Vista do you have?

Are you joined to a domain?

Do you have any sort of all-in-one tweaking type program installed that may have a setting blocking this?

In addition, double check using the tutorial below to see what group policy settings you may have enabled if any. The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterpise editions though.

Group Policy Editor - Quickly View Enabled Policies in Windows - Windows 7 Forums

thorrrr · Sep 25, 2012

It is on my mothers laptop an Acer

No software other than CCleaner and a load of crap Acer shoves on.

Hi cannot find the Policy user interface it a basic Vista Home addition.

Brink · Sep 25, 2012

One more thing to check. In Ease of Access Center, double check to make sure that the Remove background images (where available) box is unchecked.

Remove Background Images (where available) - Windows 7 Forums

thorrrr · Sep 25, 2012

Hi first thing I did see here looks like I am stuffed as she lives 200 miles away I remote into her machine .

Brink · Sep 25, 2012

Odd. You might have her create a new user account, log on to it, and see if she is able to change the desktop background for it. This will help let us know if it's an issue with her original account or a system wide issue.

thorrrr · Sep 26, 2012

HI I just logged in and created a new admin account but still not able to change background???

Brink · Sep 26, 2012

I know you say you are not able to change the desktop background, but is she able to directly?

Could you post some screenshots of what you see when you and/or her try to change the desktop background to see what is happening and if may reveal a cause?

thorrrr · Sep 26, 2012

Please see attached video this may help you. I do not think it is my access issue as you can see I can change color. But if you wish for me to record my mother trying let me know.

Here is my mother trying on video video

Hope it helps

Brink · Sep 26, 2012

Hmm, I'm not seeing anything standing out as a cause for this either.

How long as been since this started? If not to long, you could try doing a system restore using a restore point (if available) dated before this started to hopefully fix it.

If that is not an option, then you might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help.

thorrrr · Sep 26, 2012

I Have looked at system restore only goes back 3 days been like this for some time I think. Running sfc /scannow we will see no idea what is doing it ????

thorrrr · Sep 26, 2012

Hi result from sfc /scannow see here

Don’t think it has fixed anything but said it had repaired some files??

Brink · Sep 26, 2012

Could you do the yellow TIP box in the SFC tutorial above to get the sfcdetails.txt file, and upload it here instead? The CBS.LOG is just way to big.

thorrrr · Sep 27, 2012

HI I have tried to get it down but it is still over the 2mb allowed limit. It is 2.2 mb so please can you use my link?

Cheers Thorrrr

PS Just to let you know it has not worked

Brink · Sep 27, 2012

Sorry Thorrrr, but that doesn't help much since it's not complete.

Instead I need you do what's in the yellow TIP box in the SFC tutorial below to create the sfcdetails.txt file from your full CBS.LOG, and upload the sfcdetails.txt file here instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

thorrrr · Sep 27, 2012

Here is the full file View attachment 26199

Cheers

thorrrr · Sep 28, 2012

Is this file ok for you or have I done something wrong again ?

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