Guest doc-l Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 I was attempting to place a single photo on my desktop and somehow wound up with 32 of the photos tiled across desktop in four rows of eight images each as a background. I am unable to change the desktop or delete the background. Please help me!!
Guest Elmo Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 Re: Desktop doc-l wrote: > I was attempting to place a single photo on my desktop and somehow wound up > with 32 of the photos tiled across desktop in four rows of eight images each > as a background. I am unable to change the desktop or delete the background. > Please help me!! How did you change the background, and what happens when you try to use that method again? -- Joe =o)
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: Desktop Why are you unable to change teh background? Can you not get to Display Properties but right-clicking the Desktop, then clicking Properties? Can you not get to the Start button, then Control Panel, then Display? Can you see nothing? No Taskbar, no Start button? What if you hover your mouse near the bottom of the screen, in case you set teh Taskbar to autohide (hovering the mouse there or on any other side or the top of teh screen might find your Taskbar.) Or, use WinKey-R to bring up the Run box and run the following (exactly as written, including upper/lower case, spaces, no spaces, etc.): rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl Or is the issue that you can't change anything in Display Properties, or at least, you can't change the items on the Desktop tab? Because that's where you normally make these changes. If so, run REGEDIT, drill down to HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop, go to File>Export and save it as Desktop.reg, then find the item in the right-hand side of Registry Editor called "TileWallpaper", double-click it, and change its value to 0 (zero). Presuming that fixes your problem, test to see if you can use Display Properties, particularly the Desktop tab. Change the picture, change it back, etc. If not able to use the applet, come back for further suggestions. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "doc-l" <doc-l@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1D5E3191-70ED-4766-B689-FDD10B616FD1@microsoft.com... >I was attempting to place a single photo on my desktop and somehow wound up > with 32 of the photos tiled across desktop in four rows of eight images > each > as a background. I am unable to change the desktop or delete the > background. > Please help me!!
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