Windows 7 - Windows Media Player - Changing Background Image

**swarfega**

How to Change the Background Image in Windows 7 WMP12

Information

This tutorial will show you how to change the default background image in Windows Media Player that is shown in Library mode.

Warning

This tutorial involves hacking the registry, while this hack is safe, you must follow the instructions carefully. If your at all tired or fatiqued then dont do it!

Here's How:

1) Run regedit by going to start menu and entering regedit in the search bar,

2) Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences

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3) Double click on the LibraryBackgroundImage key name and a dialog box will appear asking for a value. The value to be entered is from 0 to 6. Restart WMP each time you change the key value.
NOTE: Below are screenshots of the various backgrounds.

**Lee** · 05-25-2009

Very nice. . .thank you. using no. 3

**NoN** · 05-31-2009

Great! I'm on N°1

reghakr · 05-31-2009

I'll be damned.

I used to do that with the very old version on WMP 6.1. I located how to add Open DVD from the File menu.

**dw96** · 06-02-2009

Great! On number 4 now, but is there any way to change the color? I wanna make it grey tro match the theme, but I dunno how... Could you help

reghakr · 06-02-2009

I guess I was mistaken.

In Windows Media Player 6.2 you can have you own bitmap filling up the entire screen until you played a file.

I choose Budweiser background for mine.

**jblazea50** · 06-08-2009

any way to put in custom images as the background of wmp?

that would be great

**dw96** · 06-09-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by jblazea50

any way to put in custom images as the background of wmp?

That's what I wanna know too!

reghakr · 06-09-2009

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way for that.

However if you've copied the Windows mail folder from a Vista machine and replaced the files in the C:\Program FilesWindows mail, you can add a custom graphic here.

Copy and paste the info inside the quote into Notepad, choose Save As, then save as ANSI format and type in backbitmaop.reg. Save it to your desktop and double-click on it to merge it intro the registry.

Quote:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]
"BackBitmap"=""

You need to choose a graphic (*.bmp) that is approximately 1078 x 77 x 24 other wise it will look like a tiled image.

**nizaradil** · 06-12-2009

Great! I'm on No:3

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