Q: Im a PC user and for whatever reason you do not know all the personal settings like desktop wallpaper or menu layout, start menu layout, etc. .
I logged in as myself and as the local administrator and have the same problem.
Everything else seems to work, I am able to draw everything and then say on a desktop background that I want to use, but when I apply, nothing happens and all I got is a blue desktop.
I scanned spyware / adware and viruses and found none also.
Any suggestions?
Best Answer: How long does it stay like this? Are have you never waited long enough? I know how fustrating it can be. Does it go through the boot screen and all the rest ok before you get to that point? It could be a dodgey hardrive. Mine took ages to do anything, I mean 40 minutes to log on and then I couldn't even do anything because it was so slow. Or it could just be a windows system file is conrupt, if you have a restore CD use that, only do this if you have tried everything else though. There's to many possiblities, e-mail me for more information: Jamie.Frost10@tiscali.co.uk
Good luck, Jamie.
Re:Check the file permissions on the Windows folder. If the user had local admin rights and changed the permissions somehow that could be what is going on. Also, log in as local admin and take ownership of the root folder and propagate that to all subfolders, just in case (without changing permissions, just changing ownership).
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy420
Domain computer? maybe the setting are defined by group policy?
That's definitly where I would start. Make sure it's not to a domain (IE: add it to a new workgroup) reboot it a time or two and then open up gpedit.msc and see if any settings are put in place. You can also run rsop.msc (resultant set of policies) for a quick and easy way to determine if there are any group policies left.
Also, you might want to create a brand new user and see if the settings effect them as well. It's possible that accounts that were already on there have been infected if it's not Group Policy.
I never logged into this PC before today and it did the same thing with my domain account and the local admin account and another backup admin account also.
Re:Originally posted by: guy420
Domain computer? maybe the setting are defined by group policy?
Nope. We have nothing in place to restrict users access to their PC's.
Re:Or maybe a local policy?
Re:Originally posted by: guy420
Domain computer? maybe the setting are defined by group policy?
That's definitly where I would start. Make sure it's not to a domain (IE: add it to a new workgroup) reboot it a time or two and then open up gpedit.msc and see if any settings are put in place. You can also run rsop.msc (resultant set of policies) for a quick and easy way to determine if there are any group policies left.
Also, you might want to create a brand new user and see if the settings effect them as well. It's possible that accounts that were already on there have been infected if it's not Group Policy.
Re:Domain computer? maybe the setting are defined by group policy?
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