Desktop+Wallpaper+Cannot+Change+If

Desktop Wallpaper Cannot Change

If you cannot change your desktop Wallpaper/Background there are a number of reasons, it may be a virus, or certain spyware, a malformed registry, or indeed other circumstances could transpire making it impossible for you to change the desktop wallpaper.

When you try to modify the background picture, neither the list of images nor the ʺBrowseʺ button is clickable.

Here we go again Caveat Registry

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Go to :‐

Start > Run In the box type without the quotes “ Regedit “

Scroll to :‐

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \policies

Look for a folder (key) ʺActiveDesktopʺ select it.

If not, make a new key and label it ʺActiveDesktopʺ.

If you see ʺNoChangingWallPaperʺ, double‐click the DWORD value and set it to ʺ0ʺ.

If none exists you will have to create a new DWORD value of ʺNoChangingWallPaperʺ and set it to ʺ0ʺ.

Now try changing your wallpaper.

If the above does not solve the problem,

You will also need to make the above registry changes at location: ‐

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies.