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"Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization" unable to change background

After taking an exam and shutting my computer down this morning, I turned it back on later to find my background was black. When I went to change it, I found it was unchangeable and it said "Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization". I saw another forum post that said to make another profile to see if it was the same for that and it was not the same - I was able to change the background on the other profile. I have attached a screenshot.

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Hi Bsavage1515, I am Paulo. I'm an Independent Advisor and an individual like you inclined to help.

If you've logged in a school account on your personal computer, it will assume that your account is part of an organization. Check your school account in Settings > Accounts > Access work or school. Select your school account then disconnect it.

This should disassociate your personal computer to your school.

I hope this helps.

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Thanks for the assistance. Unfortunately this did not fix the problem.

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You can check the solutions here then
https://www.askvg.com/fix-some-settings-are-man...

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Paulo, thanks for the assistance. I have tried those options but none of them seem to apply to me. I am unable to find any of the folders in the Registry editor.

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On where exactly in Settings it displays the restriction?

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It’s only on background. It does not show this anywhere else.

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It is in Personalization > Background, correct? If so, try these steps in Registry then.

1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop
2. On empty space at the right panel, right-click > New > DWORD
3. Set the name to NoChangingWallpaper
4. Set its value to 0
5. exit then restart your computer

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I just restored my computer and it is working again. I appreciate your help.

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No worries. I wasn't even able to help but I'm glad it is now working again.

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