please help

Discussion in 'Software' started by beenee10, Oct 26, 2009.

  1. beenee10

    beenee10 Private E-2

    I have been trying to resolve this issue for weeks. Somehow i cannot change wall paper, message says disply properties disabled by administrator, but i have not. I have searched all i can find is to change registry display to 0 and not 1. This just does not work. Please please help. This is the first time i have used a service like this so please bare with me
     
    Last edited: Oct 26, 2009
    beenee10, Oct 26, 2009
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  2. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    Welcome to Major Geeks.
    What Operating System?
    How are you trying to change it?
     
    hrlow2, Oct 26, 2009
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  3. beenee10

    beenee10 Private E-2

    Thank you, Vista. When i try to personalise desk top back ground/theme a message says One or moresettings has been diabled by system administrator i have searched the web and the only info i get is to go to registry and change 1 to a 0. NoDispBackgroundPage
    Alot of sites suggest this but it does not work
    Thanks for your help
     
    beenee10, Oct 26, 2009
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  4. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Did you reboot after you changed from 1 to 0?
    Exactly what key(s) did you change?

    okay, I just read your post. Change this key also HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
    NoDispAppearancePage: 0x00000001
    and reboot.

    I'm not sure if this key appears HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
    I checked a win 2k and an XP computer and neither have that key.
     
    Last edited: Oct 26, 2009
    plodr, Oct 26, 2009
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  5. beenee10

    beenee10 Private E-2

    Thank you, Thats exactly what i did. and to no avail. Any more ideas? Please
     
    beenee10, Oct 27, 2009
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  6. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    I usually just find the image I want to use on my HD, right click on "Set as Desktop".
     
    hrlow2, Oct 27, 2009
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  7. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    And did the key actually change after a reboot? If not, try running regedit 'As Administrator', which is not the same as simply running it from an account with administrative privileges. To run it 'as Administrator' right click regedit.exe and it's on the context menu.
     
    Earthling, Oct 27, 2009
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