Desktop Background Wallpaper - Change in Windows 7 Starter

How to Change Desktop Background Wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic Editions​

   Information

By default the Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic editions do not include the Personalization features such as change desktop background, Desktop Slideshow, Screen Saver, and Windows Color and Appearance.


This tutorial will show you how to add these features to the Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic editions.

• For free desktop background wallpapers from Microsoft, see: Desktop backgrounds (wallpaper) - Microsoft Windows
• By default, the Windows 7 Home Basic edition will only allow you to change the desktop background by right clicking on a image and clicking on Set as desktop background.
• If you plan on doing a in-place upgrade to another higher level edition of Windows 7 in the future, then be sure to uninstall this Oceanis Change Background W7 or Personalization Panel program first to avoid incompatibility issues with it in the new edition of Windows 7. It was designed to only work in the Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic editions.

OPTION ONE

Using the "Oceanis Change Background W7" Program

   Note

This will show you how to download and use the program Oceanis Change Background W7 provided by Oceanis so that you can change the desktop background with a optional desktop slideshow (shuffle) in the Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic editions.


If the Oceanis program is closed, then the desktop background goes with it. You will need to leave the Oceanis program running to keep the background.

• You must be using the Windows 7 Basic theme.
• If the Oceanis Change Background W7 program no longer works properly after installing some Windows Updates, then uninstall and reinstall the Oceanis Change Background W7 program to have it run properly again.
• If you get the black wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter, then:
  • Double check to make sure that the Remove background images (where available) box is unchecked in the Ease of Access Center.
  • Change the Color Scheme to Windows Classic and click on Apply, then change it to Windows Basic and click on OK.
  • If non of the above helped, then also see if this solution by Foe may be a possible fix.
• Run a sfc /scannow command, and restart the computer afterwards. You may have some corrupted system files causing the background wallpaper to not display.

1. Click on the Download button below to download the Oceanis Change Background W7 ZIP file provided by Oceanis, click on Save, and save it to your Desktop.

Download


2. Open the downloaded ZIP file, extract (drag and drop) the exe file below to your desktop, and run it.
NOTE: You will be prompted to restart the computer to finish installing this program.
Oceanis_Change_Background_W7.exe
3. When your computer restarts, you will see this as your desktop background. Click on the Oceanis Change Background W7 shortcut to change your desktop background. (see screenshot below)

4. Browse to the images that you want to use and check (select) a image, or more than one image to have a desktop slideshow. Select the Picture position for how you want the images displayed, and any desktop slideshow settings if you selected more than one image. (see screenshot below)
NOTE: These options are just like the default ones in the other editions of Windows 7 here that are now being allowed by this program by Oceanis for the Windows 7 Starter edition.



5. When done, click on Save changes. (see screenshots above)

OPTION TWO

Using the "Personalization Panel" Program

NOTE: This will show you how to download and use the Personalization Panel program to add Personalization to the desktop context menu to be able to change the desktop background, Windows Color and Appearance, Sounds, and Screen Saver in the Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic editions. This program does not add the desktop slideshow feature though.
1. Download and install the Personalization Panel program using Regular setup option at the Download link below.

Download


2. When finished installing, you can now right click on the desktop and click on Personalization.

3. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes.

4. From here you can select and set the Appearance and Personalization options you like. (see screenshot below)

5. Desktop Background
A) In Windows Starter

B) In Windows Home Basic

6. Windows Color
A) In Windows Starter



B) In Windows Home Basic, you will see this below first then the screenshots above.

7. Sounds
A) This is the same Sounds settings as in the other editions of Windows 7.
8. Screen Saver
A) This is the same Screen Saver settings as in the other editions of Windows 7.
That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Change the Windows 7 Desktop Background
• How to Create a Desktop Slideshow in Windows 7
• How to Enable Aero in Unsupported Editions of Windows 7
• How to Remove Background Images to have Only Solid Colors in Windows 7
• How to Change the Window Color and Appearance in Windows 7
• How to Change the Screen Saver in Windows 7
• How to Change or Save a Windows 7 Theme
• How to Create a Windows 7 Personalization Shortcut

 

[livietta]

HI I'm new here and I'd just like to say that since I've started using Oceanis Change Background I've had trouble with my standby mode..basically EVERYTIME my computer would wake up after the standby the screen would stay black..and either I had to restart it with the start button or I would wait and it would re-start automatically; both ways it would say there had been an error and it asked if I wanted to start windows normally or in safe mode.
Now I turned the background in the normal windows starter one and the problem disappeared!
This was just to let you guys know

 

[Brink]

Hello Livietta, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for posting back with your findings.

 

[lapho88]

home basic problem

is this progam available for win 7 home basic 32 bit

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

is this progam available for win 7 home basic 32 bit

Hello lapho88 your post is a little vague, it pays to have a better description as responders can serve you better.

Yes just click on the highlighted link of Brink's tutorial.

 

[lapho88]

is this progam available for win 7 home basic 32 bit

Hello lapho88 your post is a little vague, it pays to have a better description as responders can serve you better.

Yes just click on the highlighted link of Brink's tutorial.

hello
sorry for my simple description of my problem that let you dont understand ,now i am using windows 7 home basic ,but i found that i could not change the backgound ,do the edition of windows 7 home basic have this function(change the background)?
please can you help me to solve this problem
many thanks

 

[Brink]

Hello Lapho, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You can use the same Oceanis program in this tutorial in Windows 7 Home Basic as well to then be able to change your desktop background. Oceanis works in only Windows 7 Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic.

 

[MaeveRoche]

This is amazing. I was very scared at first to download because I was afraid of malware, but everything's perfect. Simple great!! Thank Youu!

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome MaeveRoche, and welcome to Seven Forums.

 

[dobhar]

Hey Brink...Thanks for this...I recently bought myself a Samsung Netbook with Win7 Starter. Found this thread and installed the proggy. Works great. Cheers...

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Kent. Glad to hear it.

 

[ChasteKnight]

Missed it by THAT much !

Thank you for sharing your advice with everyone in the forum - very kind of you. I followed your instructions precisely and actually managed to have my background in place - but only for few seconds. The stock windows background reasserted itself and replaced my choice. None-the-less thank you again for your comments - Cmdr R C Ford USN (Ret)

 

[Brink]

Hello Commander, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might give the program at the link below a try to see if it may work better for you. It's in a different language though.

http://www.sevenforums.com/1040990-post242.html

 

[arshadmanzoor99]

hi shawn
i installed the prog and saved the changes as u said but i am getting it in the centre only not like the usual background, tried different positions like fill stretch centre,, but no change.. it was mentioned that i need to keep oceanis programme running how do i do that.. thanks Arshad

 

[Brink]

Hello Arshadmanzoor, and welcome to Seven Forums.

When you install and run the program, it will remain running at startup in the background by default.

You might try a different sized image that is closer to the same size of your screen resolution to see if that may be the issue.

 

[robotics84]

Why do I get a viruswarning?

Hi could somebody tell me why I got a viruswarning after downloading oceanis here on your site?
Rob

 

[Brink]

Hello Rob, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It's a false positive. The program is completely clean.

What antivirus program gave you the warning?

 

[catia]

I just tried installing this on my daughter's christmas present and my AVG notifies me that it is known malware.

So, I uninstalled it (after repeated avg malware notices) and now I can't get your little cartoon off the desktop.

any advice?

 

[Brink]

Hello Catia, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It's a false positive in AVG. This program is completely clean and safe.


Did you restart the computer after uninstalling it from Programs and Features?

 

[catia]

yes, I restarted the computer

then I tried re-downloading the program, extracted files, ran the .exe and the following came up (might not be word for word):

an error occured while trying to replace existing file: wallpaperagent.exe
delete file failed; code 5
access is denied

so I did a system restore and I'm back to normal BUT I'd really like to add this program

 

[Brink]

Catia,

While logged in as an administrator use OPTION ONE in the tutorial below to check to see if you may have the wallpaperagent.exe process still running. If you do, then End Task it as in the tutorial below. Afterwards, see if you may be able to install the program.

Task Manager - Open and Close Applications and Processes - Vista Forums