I can't open the system thing to change backgrounds and so on what to do

Why cant i open the system thing to change background and so on?

My crystal ball tells me you are referring to System Preferences.
Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Repair permissions too while you're there. OS X: About OS X Recovery

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