System preferences is stuck!!!HELP

So I open up my sytem preferences to change my desktop wallpaper but it just stays stuck on "loading images". It has never done this before. So I force quit it and open up system preferences again but it just goes back to the same window. It doesn;t even show me all of the other things like network,printer etc etc. It just opens to this..
I know its blurry but this is what pops up everytime I click on system preferences. It doesn't go away even after rebooting the computer. As you can see it just says "loading images. It stays frozen on this. I cant go back and or click anything. PLEASE HELP

Open Finder, select Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.systempreferences.plist and com.apple.desktop.plist

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