Windows 10: Cannot change desktop background in win 10

I just tried to switch to another desktop background when a window popped up telling me that ms-settings: personalization background, class not registered. What in the world is that?

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High Contrast Will Not Turn Off

I have tried everything listed in the community KB.

Win 10 on a desktop

I changed themes and it took me to very small type

I can't change the background color on the task bar

When I go to High Contrast- themes-none it reports "cannot use this theme" or something similar

When I am at Personalization-Background it reports "your background is automatically turned off by Ease of Access Settings"

 

BACKGROUND THEME

Just upgraded my laptop to windows 10. Personalized background theme all ok. But then found that my desktop PC background theme had changed to the same one as my laptop. Not what I wanted.

I then reset my PC background theme only to find that it changed on my laptop also. Hubby uses the desktop PC and prefers a different background theme to me. But I cannot work out how to stop any change on one affecting the other. Can anyone help.

 

ms-setting:display and ms-personalization-background problem | Windows 10 Forums

- see #9

 

Downloaded it but the trouble shooter could not identify the problem.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Ed

 

For anyone reading this: these are reported as NOT solving this problem

sfc /scannow

Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Suggest you try a general search for
ms-settings: personalization-background
(but no space - if I omit it it turns into an emoticon here)

Putting that in explorer's address bar takes me here:

 

When I enter ms-settings*Tongueersonalization-background into the explorer search field I get "no results...".

 

Do any of the following cause problems? (you don't have to try them all..) and can you open Settings?

Try this command at an admin Powershell prompt to re-register PC settings:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\ImmersiveControlPanel\AppxManifest.xml

Accessibility Closed captioning ms-settings:easeofaccess-closedcaptioning High contrast ms-settings:easeofaccess-highcontrast Keyboard ms-settings:easeofaccess-keyboard Magnifier ms-settings:easeofaccess-magnifier Mouse ms-settings:easeofaccess-mouse Narrator ms-settings:easeofaccess-narrator Other options ms-settings:easeofaccess-otheroptions Battery and power Battery Saver ms-settings:batterysaver Battery Saver settings ms-settings:batterysaver-settings Battery use ms-settings:batterysaver-usagedetails Power and sleep ms-settings*Tongueowersleep Display and user interface Backgrounds ms-settings*Tongueersonalization-background Colors (display) ms-settings:colors Colors (personaliation) ms-settings*Tongueersonalization-colors Date and time ms-settings:dateandtime Display ms-settings:display Mouse and touchpad ms-settings:mousetouchpad Personalization ms-settings*Tongueersonalization Region and language ms-settings:regionlanguage Screen rotation ms-settings:screenrotation Speech ms-settings:speech Start ms-settings*Tongueersonalization-start Themes ms-settings:themes Typing ms-settings:typing Network and radios Airplane mode ms-settings:network-airplanemode Bluetooth ms-settings:bluetooth Cellular ms-settings:network-cellular Data usage ms-settings:datausage Dialup ms-settings:network-dialup DirectAccess ms-settings:network-directaccess Ethernet ms-settings:network-ethernet

 

I ran your command and it doesn't do anything and, no, I cannot open the settings. Clicking on PC settings doesn't do anything either.

 

In that case, failing other suggestions, and assuming you have no disk images, system image or system restore points, try an in-place upgrade repair install.

Precede it with this in case sthg has happened to your file system:

Windows key + X, click command prompt (admin)
chkdsk C: /F
Make sure the result is clear or fixed.

An In-place upgrade repair install will fix many things, but not those where the settings are not changed by the procedure.

For this you need an installation medium with the same base build as you have installed.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - Windows 10 Forums

This will refresh Windows, after the manner of a Windows installation.
- all/most associations will be unchanged
- all your programs will be left installed
- you will lose any custom fonts
- you will lose any customised system icons
- you may need to re-establish your Wi-Fi connection
- you will need to redo Windows updates subsequent to the build you have used for the repair install
- Windows.old will be created
- system restore will be turned off- you should turn it on again and I recommend you manually schedule a daily restore point.
- you will need to redo any language downloads including the display language if you changed that)
- inactive title bar colouring (if used) will be reset to default
- if Qttabbar is installed, you need to re-enable it in explorer (Options, check Qttabbar)
This is one of the better features of Win10: as each major build comes out, that's your updated reference build, and as updates are mostly cumulative, there will be few to do.

Recommendation:
Before you perform this major repair procedure, do create a disk image.

Please consider using disk imaging regularly. It's a brilliant way to
- preserve your system (and your sanity)
- back up your data
- restore your system to a previously working state in a relatively short time

Recommended: Macrium Reflect or Aomei Backupper (free) + their boot disk/device + large enough external storage medium.

 

Wow, that's quite a bit of information. I need to digest this, maybe I can try it over the weekend.
Thanks a lot for all your work.
Ed

 

Hi,After re-reading post #8 I'm not sure that I can do an in-place upgrade because I do not have an installation medium. My PC came with Win 7 and MS basically upgraded to Win 10 via the Internet.

 

Win 10 iso's are freely downloadable. See the tutorial section - search for 'iso' about the 5th or 6th.

A general search for
download "windows 10" iso
also works.

Useful for some non-booting situations e.g. startup repair, system restore etc..

There's also a link in the in-place upgrade tutorial:
A) If you have not already, you will need to download a Windows 10 ISO file.

 

Here you go,

Windows 10 ISO Download - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks, got it downloaded but haven't reinstalled yet.