the desktop image won't show up on the desktop. however, when the windows is shutting down/up, i can see the image i chose flash up on the screen. once windows loads up, the image disappears, but the background color remains.

i've tried using different images in different formats, and also the default windows backgrounds. in all instances, only the background color appears.

also, under destop properties -> desktop background, the scroll box that lists the various images i can pick from is grayed out. the "browse" tab and the "position" dropbox tab are both greyed out as well. clickly the mouse over these greyed areas does nothing. it seems as though those functions have been locked.

help?

8/23/2005 5:30:43 PM

this is amusing

8/23/2005 5:31:25 PM

hmmm... nope, not really.

the only thing i can narrow this down to as far as a cause would be that i had downloaded axis & allies via morpheus. i unzipped the file to my desktop, and installed the game. it seemed to work fine and everything. there were other zipped files within the main zip file that contained white supremicist texts.

i don't remember the desktop fucking up immediately after i downloaded this, but i do believe it was all in the same day.

8/23/2005 5:46:11 PM

thats what you get for stealing

8/23/2005 6:12:00 PM

actually, i figured it out. i open registry editor and set some values to 0. everything seems to be working fine. i hope i didn't fuck anything up in the registry though.

8/23/2005 6:32:57 PM

Morpheus is still around?

And people still use it?

8/23/2005 7:09:58 PM

^^

Quote :

"actually, i figured it out. i open registry editor and set some values to 0. everything seems to be working fine. i hope i didn't fuck anything up in the registry though."

I hope your ready for a reinstall because if you just randomly changed some values to 0 in the registry you are going to have a world of problems eventually. How did you determine which values you were going to change? Randomly?

8/23/2005 9:02:15 PM

he wrote a script to change them ALL to 0

8/23/2005 9:09:29 PM

Someone needs to make a note of this random registry tinkering the next time he asks for help.

8/23/2005 9:23:52 PM

i've had to change some registry shit before because of spyware and shit. i just kinda looked through to see if i saw anythign suspicious.

example. there was an entry: hkey_current user - software - microsoft - windows - blah blah... - desktop.html

and there was a file in my system32 folder that was modified at about the time the desktop went to shit called desktop.html and intel32.exe, etc. which i removed.

i'm assuming that the desktop.html file was the one causing the issue this thread is about. maybe it was overlayed ontop of my desktop, and i was actually see a webpage or something.

i don't know. i'm a novice computer geek.

8/24/2005 1:12:43 AM

it soulds like you just had the web page display on (active desktop or wahtever). I had a problem like that in the past and it was annoying to get rid of...

8/24/2005 8:25:20 AM