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    Simple and annoying!

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Rustnever, Apr 14, 2011.

  1. Rustnever

    Rustnever Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, new poster here although I have been lurking and found this forum a great source of info.
    I have a silly little problem, I cant change the theme or desktop wallpaper on my m11x r2 which Ive had for about 3 months, my user account is admin and its win 7 home premium (I know standard you cant customize). Im just worrying that this is a symptom of something else wrong with the OS on my system.
    Oh and I have run the sfs checking util in command prompt and found nothing.
    Cheers.
     
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    Have you scanned for viruses and spyware? There are several out there that will lock down those options.
     
    Mechawyvern, Apr 14, 2011
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    Rustnever Notebook Enthusiast

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    On it now, it seems I have tried loads of solutions without joy.
    From a win 7 forum: 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop
    Under that, there is NoChangingWallpaper. It was set as 1, which I changed to 0. I still was not able to change my wallpaper, but after a restart, I am now able to.'
    I dont even have that option in reg edit! :eek:
     
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    Rustnever Notebook Enthusiast

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    Scanned with Avast and malwarebytes anti-malware and nothing. I just wondered if this problem was something peculiar to m11x's.
     
    Rustnever, Apr 14, 2011
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    ebondefender Notebook Evangelist

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    I recommend trying HijackThis by Trend Micro if Avast and Malwarebytes didn't work.

    HijackThis - Trend Micro USA

    I had a similar problem on my Windows XP computer years ago, it was a nuisance of a thing called "Spy Axe!" I hated that. The purple gorilla "Bonzi Buddy" was even worse. :\ I feel your pain.
     
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    Well as it happens I managed to brick my baby by doing a system restore and now windows wont load up, just a black screen with the white pointer.
    Doing a fresh install from the disk provided and see how it goes.
    What the disk didnt do was give me any recovery options/tools which I thought was strange?!
     
    Rustnever, Apr 15, 2011
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