Desktop backround won't display Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Desktop backround won't display in the Windows Vista forums; Only turns on briefly at shutdown or restart. Otherwise I can change the colors and schemes, but the desktop backround won't change. I have only 1 login and it'...

[Highnoon]

Only turns on briefly at shutdown or restart.
Otherwise I can change the colors and schemes, but the desktop
backround won't change.
I have only 1 login and it's set as admin.
The screensaver and slideshows work, but the desktop problem is driving me crazy.

When I go to set an image as a backround it seems to accept it, but when you minimize it doesn't change.

Thanks in advance for an guidence!
Acer Aspire e560
Vista Home Premium

Highnoon

[Juggernaut]

What kind of motherboard do you have? How much ram do you have? What kind of Video Card do you have, or is it integrated? How long ago have you installed Vista? How long have you had problems with the desktop and have you had any similar problems before? Do you have any other graphical errors or any errors with any Vista features?

You can try to see if your Motherboard manufacture has any new driver updates for the chipset. Do the same with your graphics card too, as I have seen many problems fixed by getting the correct drivers. You may want to try a virus scan as well, or try a registry scan to see if any files there are corrupt.

[Highnoon]

Thanks, but everything else works fine and it does display the backround image when I shutdown or restart or even when I goto the desktop backround menu under personalize. It shows the image I have selected, but won't actually show up on the desktop. I think it must be something in the registry or a security setting that is causing this..?
Anyone else? Registry items I should look for?

[Juggernaut]

Search for a registry scanner, that should let you know if there is any corrupted files in it.

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Search for a registry scanner, that should let you know if there is any corrupted files in it.

please explain that to me... A reg scanner that finds corrupt files.
and his system is: Acer Aspire E560 - Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 GHz
normally comes with
XP Media Centre installed and Vista Ready.
DDR II 2048 MB
nVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE TurboCache 512MB PCIe DVI
Monitor Not Included
so his system is upgraded to Vista Home Premium.

If this info is correct then he should REPAIR the Install or reinstall.
also it might be nice if he would install the correct Drivers for his Monitor. what ever type that might be. Generic Drivers makes things work but not always correctly.. that is why manufactures make drivers for there products.

[Juggernaut]

My mistake, what I should have recommended was a registry cleaner. But your solution is the better suggestion and I would go with that if you have a recovery disk.

[Highnoon]

Thanks Snuffy. It came as a package with an acer monitor so I would assume it has the correct drivers, but I will double check that.
I also came preloaded with Vista Home Premium, but I just had to do the initial setup/configuration.

[Snuffy]

OK, Vista and Acer do have some problems with conflicts on the Video Card drivers.
1. open control panel --> display --> DELETE the entry.
reboot and let Vista install the (WDDM) driver set. run some tests on this driver.
then you can search around and find as many NVidia Drivers that you can, download and save... slowly. upgrade your driver set to the next one, and run all tests... WHEN THE PROBLEM IS FIXED. keep that set of drivers...
my Acer works great with the (WDDM) Drivers... and WDDM drivers are from the MS Site not ACER's.
On upgrades it is known that some times you have to install twice to get the upgrade correct..I do not know why, but over 50% of all upgrade problems are fixed by the 2nd upgrade.

[Highnoon]

That's the same driver I have.
I tried different schemes and backround options thinking it was being denied permissions or something. Nope...

Anyone else ?

[crabby]

I had this issue in linux. The problem was that the desktop 'colour' was layer OVER the desktop 'background' instead of behind it. Never seen it in windows and so can't help directly... but reinstalling did help in linux

crabby