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    Vista won't let me change my background

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by giblets, Nov 9, 2007.

  1. giblets

    giblets Notebook Enthusiast

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    For the last couple of weeks, whenever I want to change my desktop background, Vista will not let me. When I go into the Personalize screen, and click Desktop Background, I get the message "Failed to load page. Please return to Control Panel to change your background settings." Has anyone else run into this? The only thing I can think of is that it's the newer Nvidia drivers not wanting to play well with Vista. I'm running 169.04 right now.

    Also, when I right click a file and click "Set as desktop background" I get a Windows Photo Gallery error message that reads "This image can't be set as wallpaper. An internal error has occured."

    The only way I've been able to make it change is by going into safe mode, which is pretty annoying when all I want to do is get a new background...
     
    giblets, Nov 9, 2007
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    All I can say is it's not the driver. Works fine here. Sounds like something's corrupted.
     
    Lithus, Nov 9, 2007
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    giblets Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I guess it's time for a restore when I get home from my weekend vacation then :(
     
    giblets, Nov 9, 2007
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    Yes, corrupted file(s) it sounds like...try a system restore?....Ok, just saw your post....that will probably do it.
     
    theZoid, Nov 11, 2007
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