Can't keep my desktop picture

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    Somewhere in November,2014,the PC I used...well...broke.Friend of mine found me one of his old computers with Windows XP(SP3) and well it worked just fine until I found something that well really bothers me.

    I can't keep my desktop pic in place.

    I've worked on a computer with XP years ago and know how to change the background,don't tell me I'm doing something wrong.

    Also I tried with regedit then HKEY LOCAL MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/policies/Active Desktop and NoChangingWallPaper....and such...didn't work.

    Every time I log out or restart or a certain time passes the desktop pic resets back to black.

    :confused:

    Help?
     
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    create a new account, copy the desired picture to my pictures of the new account.
    log out, log in as the new account, place your desired picture as background, restart pc.

    log in as new account did the picture stay in place??

    if so then the other account is corrupted, copy all docs , etc. to the new account and then delete the old account.
     
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    Thanks
     
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    It didn't btw.I tried.New account,new everything...and nope,still gone after 30 minutes.
     
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    okay, will keep searching. I had thought it might be a corrupted account.

    have you tried a different picture?? does the same thing happen??

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    you might run chkdsk c: /r , run at least twice. this should correct any system file.

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    any errors in event viewer??
     
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    Happens with every pic I tried....And now on top of everything my sound disappeared...

    Thank you
     
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    you would do well to clean your pc as it sounds like it is infected:

    what is your current antivirus??

    do the following:


    Download, install, update and do full scan with these free malware detection programs:

    Malwarebytes Free (MBAM): http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/

    SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

    Remove all found, reboot, and run again until scans run clean, these can be removed afterwards if you so choose. Run scans one at a time, please.
     
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    Avast is my current antivirus software,I did clean up with it few days ago and found 5 viruses which I cleaned up but now my sound disappeared again.
     
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    uninstall your sound driver and then reinstall

    you can do the following and I can find your driver:

    Click Start, Run and in the box enter:

    msinfo32

    Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All (Ctrl-A), Copy (Ctrl-C) and then paste (Ctrl-V) the information back here in your next reply.
    You can edit out any personal information.

    and also expand Components, highlight Sound device and copy/paste that info also.
     
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    It tells me that Windows can't find msinfo32


    Also um...in which folder are Components?
    Sorry can't really think right now.
     
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    I ran Malwarebytes twice and it found nothing,but I still can't get msinfo32 ,also I did an online scan and it found me only 10 files which I removed.

    I literally bombarded my PC with all the softwares you linked me to except Kaspersky and deleted all the files they found.

    Right now I have SoundMAX uninstalled and will reinstall it in a minute.If this doesn't recover the sound I will probably give the PC over for full reinstallation.
     
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    The sound card is a device or is in the system?
     
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    The sound card is a hardware part generally integrated onto the motherboard,

    the problem with sound is generally the driver.

    if you go to the control panel and click on sounds and audio devices, you can click on the help button for further troubleshooting,

    you can look in device manager to see if the sound driver is working properly or has a warning next to it, generally a yellow exclamation point.
     
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    Oh.It doesn't have any mark...tells me all drivers are working properly.Thats why I thought the problem could be in the machine.
     
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    it might be the settings, did you go to the control panel??

    did you check your speakers on a different pc??

    it might be the jack is bad?? if the speakers work in a different pc then that may be the prob, and you should get a speaker to try that is usb and not ps2
     
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