when i try to put a picture or anything for my background, i cant select anything from the appearance menu in the control panel. the box is "greyed out" and i can't scroll and select. i can only choose a solid color for my background. when i shut down, i see the picture i select as background, but it never will be displayed during normal computer activity. i've tried everything i can think of to fix this weird problem...
any suggestions????? thanks!!! p.s. i'm running xp home ed. on a year old toshiba satellite laptop.
2006-10-23 15:39:38 · 8 answers · asked by buddhist_prodigy1 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Well that is not normal and I am not sure how to fix that it could be a bad xp disk depending how long you had it I would take it back for another one.
try it again
control panel
appearance and themes
display
desktop
or
Right click on desktop
property's
desktop
or
go to IE
search for a picture you like
right click on it
choose "Set as desktop background"
2006-10-23 15:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Bullz_ eye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going to your picture folder on your computer. If I right click on the picture it gives me several choices as to what to do. One of my options is to set picture as desktop background. Left click on it, it should change your background. Maybe that'll work.
2006-10-23 15:46:11 · answer #2 · answered by robbie347 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to start
Go into control panel
then click on display
choose the backround you want on your computer
2006-10-23 15:41:10 · answer #3 · answered by Melody-Lynn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PLACE THE PIC IN MY PICTURES AND ONCE THERE RIGHT CLICK, ON THE OPTIONS THAT APPEAR LEFT CLICK ON THE PICTURE YOU WANT, SELECTING THIS ONE AS YOUR DESKTOP BACKROUND. WENT THRU THE SAME SENARIO MYSELF.
GOD BLESS
2006-10-23 15:52:33 · answer #4 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd defrag, run spybot, ad-aware, virus scan, etc... If all check out fine, I'd do a system restore back to the last time it was working ok.
2006-10-23 15:41:41 · answer #5 · answered by IMHO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Webshots has a great photo background program.. You can d/l and it is comes with lots of photos.. Try it is free..
http://www.webshots.com/
2006-10-23 15:45:37 · answer #6 · answered by Elaine B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe beacause you do not log in windows with administrator account or your account has not the right to make the change
2006-10-23 15:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right click ur background
2006-10-23 15:40:34 · answer #8 · answered by ijis d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋