Desktop bkgr disabled after virus infection

Viruses and worms
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Recently I was infected by virus (can’t remember the name…) and few hours later I managed to manually remove it completely.
The virus had disabled my task manager (which I manually restored) and also has changed my desktop background.
This is not vital, but it’s annoying. I seached through reg settings but no matter what picture I choose, it still doesn’t work. Additionally, I tried to simply change the color of the desktop, still w/o success…
Does anyone know how to resolve this bug?? I use Win XP Home Greek version.

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See if this information posted by Cheesball81 helps

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/423957-cannot-change-desktop-wallpaper.html

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I don’t, but I know a friend that might, a google search http://www.google.com/search?q=desktop+background+disabled returns many hits, this is might have a solution if the one mauserme doesn’t resolve the problem, good luck.

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Hi Sysifos,

Try Spybot Search & Destroy and also SmitFraudFix:

http://www.safer-networking.org/

http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php

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I tried this one!!!

Download and save [b]Cleandesktop [/b] to your computer from this link: [b]http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/cleandesktop.exe[/b] and double click on the cleandesktop.exe

It will automatically extract to c:\desktopclean where it needs to be to run and will automatically run the cleandesktop.vbs script . If it doesn’t open then go to c:\desktopclean and double click on the cleandesktop.vbs Do not run any other file from there please unless asked to.

If you have script blocking enabled you will get a warning about a malicious script wanting to run. Please allow this script to run. It is not malicious. If you get a message when you first run it "Can not find script file “blah blah blah” then don’t worry just doubleclick the cleandesktop.vbs script again you sometimes get that message when a script blocker blocks the script

It will then kill Explorer. You will lose your taskbar and desktop. It will repair the registry entries returning your normal desktop and context menu functions.
It will restart Explorer.

Once you have performed the big cleanup, each of the other Users on the System needs to be signed in to clean up their desktop and regain the right click.

It worked fine!!! ;D

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Thanks for the feedback.