Background is currently turned off by ease of access settings.

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Background is currently turned off by ease of access settings.

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PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION THE DETAILS OF MY VERSION OF WINDOWS IS AS FOLLOWS

WINDOWS 10 HOME. VERSION 1809 OS BUILD 17763.316

IF YOUR "SYSTEM" DOES NOT MATCH THESE - PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION AS YOUR ANSWERS WILL NOT WORK.

I have no idea what happenned, but suddenly I have discovered that if I try to change the background of my screens or colours back to the original factory settings the following notice always comes up and I CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING.

"Background is currently turned off by Ease of Access settings"

I have looked at ALL suggestions as to how to fix this but NO ONE has given an answer that WORKS.

All that happens is that the problem gets worse.

e.g. the colours set up are either too bright of at variance to each other that it is impossible to read.

Grey scale does not work properly. High definition messes all the colours and any attempt to put a picture on the screen fails as a result of the above message.

The descriptions given bear NO resemblance to what I see on the screen.

Has anyone else met this problem with the above numbered build and if so, how did you resolve the problem.

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Answer 1

Hello Andre,

Thank you for your kind reply, it IS appreciated.

As I said earlier, I had tried some of your ideas for solving the problem.

It occurred to me to take a look at the settings on another laptop of similar build.

The following "seems" to have solved the problem and as a result I pass this along in case others might like to try it before following your path.

Goto Windows icon on bottom left of screen and click on it

1a. OR if you prefer Windows + X

Either click on cog (settings) OR select "Settings" from result in 1a.
Look for "Ease of Access" and select it
It "normally" opens with "Display" - but if not LOOK for "Display" and select it.
Look at the detailed section on the RIGHT hand side and scroll down to "Simplify and personalise Windows"
Look for "Show desktop background image" (just below "Show notifications for" and the box that is set for about 5 seconds)
LOOK for the switch. - Turn it to OFF.

You will know that it has changed since the background will then change also.

( if you previously had a picture selected, it will now show in the background)

Press the "HOME" icon at the top of the display on the LEFT - Windows Settings Menu should now appear.

9. Select "PERSONALISATION" from the menu.

If all is well the message" Your background is currently turned off by Ease of Access settings" will have disappeared.

That's it.

AS I said it worked for me after many hours of frustration.

I hope that it works for you

Kind regards

Jim

Answer 2

Anonymous

Thank you for sharing this solution with us for the benefit of others.

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Answer 3

Hi Jim

Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing.

Press Windows key + X

Click Windows PowerShell (Admin). 



At the command prompt, type the following, hit Enter the restart. 



PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage \*immersivecontrolpanel\*).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest}"

or

Run the following troubleshooter:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/402749...

If those options don't work...

Run the Start menu troubleshooter:

http://aka.ms/diag_StartMenu

If that does not work:

Press Windows key + X

Click Task Manager

Select the Processes tab

Scroll down to Windows Explorer then select it

Click Restart

If that does not work:

uninstall your display driver:

Press Windows key + X

Click Device Manager

Expand Display adapters

Right click the current display adapter

Click Uninstall

Exit Device Manager

Restart

Still not working...

Which Antivirus utility do you have installed?

Open Start, type: CMD

Right click CMD

Click Run as administrator

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Also run the System File Checker utility:

Open Start, type: CMD

Right click CMD

Click Run as administrator

At the Command Prompt, type: sfc/scannow

This will check for any integrity violations

Restart your system

Check if you are now able to access the Ease of Access settings.

Answer 4

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION THE DETAILS OF MY VERSION OF WINDOWS IS AS FOLLOWS

WINDOWS 10 HOME. VERSION 1809 OS BUILD 17763.316

IF YOUR "SYSTEM" DOES NOT MATCH THESE - PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION AS YOUR ANSWERS WILL NOT WORK.

I have no idea what happenned, but suddenly I have discovered that if I try to change the background of my screens or colours back to the original factory settings the following notice always comes up and I CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING.

"Background is currently turned off by Ease of Access settings"

I have looked at ALL suggestions as to how to fix this but NO ONE has given an answer that WORKS.

All that happens is that the problem gets worse.

e.g. the colours set up are either too bright of at variance to each other that it is impossible to read.

Grey scale does not work properly. High definition messes all the colours and any attempt to put a picture on the screen fails as a result of the above message.

The descriptions given bear NO resemblance to what I see on the screen.

Has anyone else met this problem with the above numbered build and if so, how did you resolve the problem.

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