Vindicator209 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Hey,, simple question, can you change the desktop background using autoit? my computer keeps messing up and my desktop always says "Active Desktop Recovery Microsoft Windows has experienced an unexpected error. As a precaution, your Active Desktop has been turned off. To restore the Active Desktop, use the following troubleshooting tips: " and its a bit annoying... thanks, methodzero [center]"When you look at old, classic games like Snake, you often put it off because it's such a simple game, but it's only when you actually try and create your own unique game from scratch, do you finally appreciate those games."[/center][center]Don't ask for answers if you haven't TRIED yet![/center][center]Most answers can be answered in the help file! Use it![/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i542 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Hey,, simple question, can you change the desktop background using autoit? my computer keeps messing up and my desktop always says "Active Desktop Recovery Microsoft Windows has experienced an unexpected error. As a precaution, your Active Desktop has been turned off. To restore the Active Desktop, use the following troubleshooting tips: "and its a bit annoying...thanks, methodzero well then stop turning off your computer nasty or change your wallpaper once forever. I can do signature me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Are you running Windows 98??? Sounds like spyware is corrupting your active desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralAlkex Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 (edited) Hey,, simple question, can you change the desktop background using autoit? my computer keeps messing up and my desktop always says "Active Desktop Recovery Microsoft Windows has experienced an unexpected error. As a precaution, your Active Desktop has been turned off. To restore the Active Desktop, use the following troubleshooting tips: "and its a bit annoying...thanks, methodzeroIn Windows XP (and probably most of the others) the wallpaper is sitting in the registry key called "Wallpaper" located in "\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" maybe you can use RegWrite or something....Are you running Windows 98??? Sounds like spyware is corrupting your active desktop.Whaaaat?? I have had both Windows 98 and XP and Active Desktop has acted far worse on XP!! Edited June 30, 2007 by TzarAlkex .Some of my scripts: ShiftER, Codec-Control, Resolution switcher for HTC ShiftSome of my UDFs: SDL UDF, SetDefaultDllDirectories, Converting GDI+ Bitmap/Image to SDL Surface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicator209 Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 true that,I've been playing online games, then my computer gets asploded with "Dr Watson Postmortem has encountered a problem and need to close" Then sometimes i get a blue screen of death n I gotta restart....and when I come back the desktop dies [center]"When you look at old, classic games like Snake, you often put it off because it's such a simple game, but it's only when you actually try and create your own unique game from scratch, do you finally appreciate those games."[/center][center]Don't ask for answers if you haven't TRIED yet![/center][center]Most answers can be answered in the help file! Use it![/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieuz Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 This should do the job! $file_path = @SCRIPTDIR & "\Image.bmp" ;Filepath of the image Dim Const $SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20; Dim Const $SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = 0x01; Dim Const $SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE = 0x02; Dim Const $REGISTRY_PATH = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" $err = DllCall( "User32.dll", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", "int", $SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, _ "int", 0, "string", $file_path, "int", $SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE ) $err2 = DllCall( "User32.dll", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", "int", $SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, _ "int", 0, "string", $file_path, "int", $SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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