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Hi, Please can someone help me with a fustrating issue I have with setting the desktop background in Vista Home Premium. I have just purchased a HP Pavilion DV6799EA Special Edition in the UK with the aforementioned OS. During the installation I was promped to choose a desktop background and I chose the so called special edition background which matches the chocolate colour of the laptop lid. See the link from HP site. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en...87-38191-38191... The problem I have is that when I change the desktop backgound (wallpaper) and restart the laptop the dersktop has reverted back to the desktop I chose during installation. How can I get the laptop to keep my newly selected desktop? Hope you can help! By the way, after I restart the laptop and go back into Desktop Backgounds the desired wallpaper appears immediately without even selecting it with a mouse click on the radio button! ______________ EDIT: I've just been checking the registry again and searched for c:\windows\web\wallpaper, the location of default background images, I found the entry referring to the wallpaper image HPSproutv2.jpg . I exported the key and then changed the permissions on the key. I edited this value to a desired wallpaper img18.jpg and restarted the laptop, hey presto! It's changed the desktop, I just hope I don't have to do this each time I fancy a change of wallpaper! HK_USERS\default\control panel\desktop\