Hi John, Fact is that I'm tuning the OS for an overclocking contest I'm in. That means I'll be looking at the highest clock attainable, which currently is 4.4GHz on air and will be going up with the upcoming watercooling. I am not using a VM for the same reason. I am actually not having the "Set this image as background" option, as a matter of fact. I should've said that. Service Pack 3 is integrated in my Windows XP x64 image file so there is no special adding it, as I do believe. I am really searching for a very specific feature that I disabled which also disabled my background image service. I found a few people on the net having issues with their background due to virusus and such, and they are suppose to run the following commands: I do not have either DLL file and I suppose simply downloading and adding them will not do the trick either, altough I can give this a try. The most important thing for me to know is what feature I enabled for removing caused the removal of this specific background image feature. Thank you for your time!