Why can't I put a picture in my Gallery personal photo as my (desktop wallpaper) background now?

I mean, it's just recently (about a week) I noticed that the only way I am able to set a picture as my wallpaper is when I go into Control Panel, browse and then set. Whereas before I could always just do a right-click on the image and choose 'set as wallpaper' to change. Now, when I right click on any pic stored in my Gallery and choose the option set as my bottom nothing happens! No idea why it suddenly does not work when I click with the right button on the image and choose as wallpaper? What can I do to fix this?

Try a system restore to a Date before the problem began:

Restore point:

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

Read the above for a very good graph shows how backward more than 5 days in the System Restore Points by checking the correct box.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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