Modify the registry at your own risk. See How to back up the registry. Step by Step: 1. On the right hand side find there are a bunch of entries. Restart Computer and enjoy new Wallpaper. Many visitors to this forum with this problem have been extremely happy with this workaround.
There's also an desktop slideshow shuffle available. It's a snip to download, it's safe and it's free. You can get it here:. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no "Customize" option in the control panel. Microsoft obviously wants to keep the netbook users rather rigidly from customizing their machines. From what I can tell only the user "Trusted Installer" would have enough rights to do so Resetting permissions on the file and overwriting will not work, as shell The only option other than tampering with the files yourself in a hex editor is using Stardock MyColors , though you must use an entire theme.
Nope, Windows 7 starter will not let you change the background. You'll need to upgrade to Home Premium or higher. EDIT: I take that back, there is a way to do it, but you'll need to use a third-party tool like Windows Blind in order to do it. I wouldn't recommend it, however, because most netbooks are short on resources already. A third-party theme manager would just take up more of those resources. Laugh at the EULA when it's quite clear that no jury in the world would think of depriving someone of for instance a picture of their family as desktop background : it could even be said that Microsoft trying to prevent that is in itself offensive.
As far as I know, there's no hash key comparison happening, although you need to set the registry key permissions right to make it work. From here :. It entirely bypass that restriction.
This site also has some workarounds. Basically, find the file:. Does this program help you change the Wallpaper? Microsoft had the great idea to forbid changing the wallpaper in the Starter Edition of Windows 7, so that people would buy more upgrades. But that's really annoying. I mean - you have got a nice netbook with Windows 7 installed, and now you probably want to customize it and add a cool wallpaper! Who wouldn't? But - oh no - there is no way to do that!
Crap, isn't it? I was annoyed too, but I started investigating, thinking and trying, I simply wanted to find a way to change the wallpaper without installing a huge software like Talisman Desktop Pro, which eats up a lot of performance.
And I was successful! I finally figured out a solution and created a little tool which does everything for you, so I can share that solution with everyone suffering from the same problem!
I don't want you guys to be as frustrated as I was! One of the simplest things that you can do would be to just purchase a Windows Anytime Upgrade package from Microsoft. You should then have a much nicer experience with Wnidows 7 and not have to muck around in the registry or get frustrated because you can't do something. Goto the website win Even more, you can have extra functionality that is not available on Windows Pro such as:.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? You will need to open this to get to the next step. This step will require you to open the Web folder created on your hard drive, this will housed a folder named Windows. The Windows folder is located on the hard drive. Open these folders. This step shows you how to replace the wallpaper used by the Windows 7 Basic color scheme.
For this you need to open the Wallpaper folder. Inside that folder will be another folder named Windows. Inside that folder is a file called img0. This is your wallpaper. You can replace this image with any other image as long as you make a copy called img0.
If you do not copy and rename your image it will not work. The next step will show you how to replace the image. This is the final step. However, your new wallpaper will not be shown until you log off and log back in to your account. To do this you need to find the image you wish to replace the wallpaper with. Copy this image. On my computer, I will actually download an image from the Internet. This part is unnecessary unless the picture you want isn't available.
Once you have copied the desired image, paste it into the folder you opened back in step 4. And that's it.
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