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ballinlea

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Hi
I am running Vista Basic upgraded to Home Premium. For some time I have not been able to set a picture as my background. If I set a picture as my background it does not show on my desktop. All I have is a solid colour which I can change. If I use the switch between windows feature of Aero I can see the background but only after I have selected my desktop from the available windows and use the switch between windows feature again. The picture never shows up on my desktop.
I did have a problem with Aero at one time when it would load up when I boot up but as soon as my desktop loaded Aero stopped working. I did get this sorted out by uninstalling and reinstalling my graphics card.
I hope this makes sense. I know it is not a big problem but I would just like to be able to set a picture as my background.
Thanks in advance
 

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You may, without realizing it, have "Sample Pictures" selected as the place the system searches for your Desktop Background pictures. To change that, right-click your Desktop and go to Personalize, Desktop Background, and in Location, change the selection. If you, for example, select Pictures as your location, you can choose any photo in your Pictures file to use as your Desktop Background, and, of course, you can put any picture you choose into that file.
 

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    HP Pavillion dv5t (Gen. 1)
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    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T9400 (2.53 GHz)
    Memory
    4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
    Graphics Card(s)
    512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
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    15.4" diagonal WSXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
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    built in - HP
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    built in - Synaptics TouchPad V6.5 on PS/2 Port
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    ~ Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card w/Bluetooth ~ Blu-Ray ROM DVD+/-R/RW ~ Integ. HDTV Hybrid Tuner ~ 12 Cell Battery ~ MS Office (Home Premium) 2007 ~
Hi
I have tried different locations for images. Even if I set Windows Wallpapers as my backgrounds they still do not show on my desktop. I have just noticed that if I close down the Windows Sidebar part of the image I set is there where the sidebar was but only for about 1 second. Then it reverts to the solid colour.
Thanks
 

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Hi,

Please run "SFC". See this tutorial by Brink: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

Once you have done this, please upload your log file if errors were detected in zip format, and download, install and run the free Malwarebytes Anti-malware.

Be aware that the problem may be stemming from you upgrading your copy of Home Basic to Home Premium, rather than clean installing. Did you do anything specific before this problem started happening?

Richard
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300)
    Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0

    1 x 1Tb (SATA 600)
    Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms
    Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
Hi
I ran sfc/scannow. Result was 'Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations'. I then ran Malwarebytes which I have on computer. it found only one item which was a Trojan Downloader in Temporary Internet Files, which will be removed when I restart.
I am not sure how long I have not been able to set a picture as my background. As I said I can still set pictures as background it is just that there seems to be another background in front of it.
 

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