OMG! What is wrong with the Desktop?

[Bearbegr]

OMG! I am getting so frustrated, and I have googled until I could not anymore!... Here is the deal...

Yesterday I reformated my father sony vaio pc because it was running like crap as most sony pcs do. This time I reformated with a windows XP disc rather than the image discs sony gives you that restores to factory settings... Well today, I do not know what he did but the desktop is white. It filickers between white and off white. When I right click to change the desktop it only has a GENERAL tab and says:

Protical: File Protical
Type: HTML AOL Document
Connection: Not encrypted
Adress(URL): file://C:\Windows\desktop.html
Size: NA
Created: NA
Modified: NA

None of this is changable or anything. I have virus scanned 10 times, and ad aware 10 more! Found some stuff, but its gone now... PLMK any help you can give! Thanks

Chris

[Poppa_Meth]

Never heard that one before. Try going to the C:\Windows folder and renaming the file to desktop.ini instead of desktop.html. My Windows folder has a desktop.ini file but no desktop.html file in it. First thing I'd do is try changing the extension and rebooting.

[Poppa_Meth]

Never mind the last post, looks like your desktop got hijacked. Googled it and found this.

Courtesy of Ron Kimmel over on the HP IT Forum, here's how I was able to restore my XP Pro Desktop after it was 'hijacked':

I was able to access the underlying desktop 'properties' by going to the area where my taskbar auto-hides and right-clicking, and then clicking the "Desktop" tab, then "Customize Desktop ...", then on clicking the Web tab, a window opened up, "To display a Web page on your desktop, select it from the following list. To add a Web page to the list, click New. To update Web page content, click Synchronize." Under Web pages was a page titled "Security". When I unselected it, my XP Pro desktop returned. I then highlighted "Security" and then deleted it.

You can also get to your display properties from the control panel.