No desktop background image!

Hi Elm,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! I have been without a desktop background for months, until I read your post today!! Wow, I don't know what I did, but I have spent hours trying to fix it, but your advice did the trick! Thanks so much for posting your solution to try and help others, you have made at least one person very very happy!
Kerri

Hi folks, I have a slightly different, but related problem. More of an annoyance than a problem really. My problem is that after some random amount of time, my background picture stops changing. The background doesn't go black or not show any pictures at all, it just stops rotating between the pictures. I go into the Personalize settings, and when I go there, I see that only one picture is selected, out of the many that were previously selected. I then just reselect all of those pictures, and it gets fixed, until the next time it happens randomly again. This happens over and over again.

I went into %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\ as suggested in this thread, and I do find that both the files mentioned, TranscodedWallpaper.jpg & slideshow.ini are located in there properly. So I'm not sure why the slideshow stops.

The only pattern I can see is that it seems to happen after I've been away from the computer a bit, and after the screensaver has kicked in. It never happens while I'm in front of the computer.

WalkerA WinTeam said:

Well of course a tute would be awesome, but I don't know if it's fair to expect it... although the community would certainly appreciate one, elm :)

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

No problem, here it is: Windows 7 Background Image Problem Fix

Hope it makes enough sense; even for inexperienced users. :)

bbbl67 said:

[...] The only pattern I can see is that it seems to happen after I've been away from the computer a bit, and after the screensaver has kicked in. It never happens while I'm in front of the computer.

That's interesting. Have you tried deleting both files, and restarting your PC? How often does it happen?

richc46 said:

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Cool. Thanks, you guys!