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possibly a fix for windows 7 start black wallpaper...
I dont remember reading this, so i'll share my experience. The starter version has a nasty 'feature' of not featuring an option to change your background image. Many people have tried and the only reliable ways to do this turned out to be 'drawing' one on top of the other using 3rd party software, or to patch system files. Now i wasnt really happy about those options, becouse I run windows 7 starter with only 1 G ram (at the time there was crapware running in backgroud, had a look into that so now I CAN miss it). However I was so stupid to replace the img0.jpg file in the windows web subfolder to try something less ram expensive. Yes, now I now, I should have searched about it and read for my self this was not an option becouse part of the image was hardcoded... well I was stuck with a black background and no way to change it back...
But after some research I found that the key: HKCU/Control Panel\Desktop had a Value called 'Wallpaper'. In windows starter it s data can only be nothing or '%windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg' (without quotes). Windows 7 Starter saw the wrong img0.jpg and changed it into an empty value turning black the background image.
Solution: The only one I know of:
changing the data of the value back into '%windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg' (without quotes), press ok and logg off. When you logg back on you'll see the background image the way it has to be .
P.S. I thought I dit not have to mention you need to replace the img0.jpg with the original first...