Why won't my background change?

I just bought a new macbook pro last saturday and I set my background to a picture but now when I try to change it, nothing happens unless i restart it. I don't want to have to restart my computer every time I want to change my desktop image. Why is this happening?? Any solutions??

rcorelle wrote:
I just bought a new macbook pro last saturday and I set my background to a picture but now when I try to change it, nothing happens unless i restart it. I don't want to have to restart my computer every time I want to change my desktop image.
When you change your desktop background picture to "B", it doesn't change immediatly, but it does change to "B" upon a restart of the computer correct? Not to "C" or "A" or somthing else.
Check your settings like OGELTHORPE suggested first, then try these steps.
1: Hold the command and r keys down and reboot the computer. (command key looks like a 4 leaf clover with Apple) You boot into the Lion Recovery Partition, use Disk Utility to first Aid > Repair Disk and Repair Permisisons of your OS X Lion partition. Quit and reboot nornally. See if that fixes your issue.
2: Next hold the option key down and from the Finder Go menu select Library, open the Library/Preferences folder and find the SystemPreferences.plist file (there will be two of them) remove the one you can and place it on the desktop area and then restart the computer. Go to System Preferences and reset your preferences, background picture, it should work now. Trash the file you placed on the desktop and empty trash.
3: Download OnyX for OS X Lion and run all the cleaning and maintainence aspects and reboot at the end.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/

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