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

 

[derekimo]

Hi, I am new to this forum and I have a question regarding the programms. I have downloaded both files and installed it, but when I right click personalization it says: Your Windows 7 edition is not supported.
Hope someone can help me.

Welcome to the forum,

These programs are made for Windows 7 Starter and Basic, these features and

more are already built in to Home Premium that you have listed in your specs.

This might help you out,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/281-desktop-background-change.html

Actually I have the personalization option, but I don't get the same menu as this video: How To Reduce Lag In Camtasia Studio 7 - YouTube
It's around 0:35, if you know a other way to open this menu it would be really helpful

That is Windows Vista in in the video.



Here's a tutorial for Windows 7,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/258-color-bit-depth-display-settings.html

 

[Orochii]

Thanks a lot.

 

[derekimo]

Thanks a lot.

You're welcome.

 

[saeedeh]

thank you! it really worked!

 

[Brink]

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

 

[JazzSus]

Just accomplished change wallpaper on my ACER AOD257 with Starter edition. What great tutorial you did above. I used "Personalization Panel" appy and it works great for me. I'm pretty happy with this "small beast" netbook with all limitations which OS Starter brings with.[bought it as xmas gift for myself last week] However enjoy change my wallpaper time to time. So here it is and I finaly got it. Thanks Brink and glad to join the forum.

Vlad

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Vlad. We're glad to have you here. Thank you.

 

[enn]

I was so bored with my desktop until I read your post. It was really helpful. Thanks!

ann from philippines

 

[Brink]

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

 

[jhoy]

how to download that personalizaation panel? i clicked the download button many times but it is not downloading what can i do? plss help...

 

[Brink]

Hello Jhoy, and welcome to Seven Forums.

When you click on the download button here, it takes you to the source site below where you would click on their Download button there to then select a download (ex: Softpedia Secure download US (zip)) option to actually download it.

 

[ykirei]

hi. newbie here. whenever i click the download button after StEP 1, a new tab window opens and it says "501 Bad Gateway" pls help me. thanks.

 

[Brink]

Hello ykirei, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I'm sorry about that. The Oceanis download link has been fixed.

 

[hb860]

Please note what Personalization Panel was updated to version 2.5.
Now i have started development of Desktop Slideshow feature.

 

[74um]

malfunction

Hi, I´m new here in.
That´s my poblem:
I installed Oceanis Wallpaper Changer at my Win 7 Starter-Netbook and was lucky some month.
But now (I think after an Windows Update, because I didn´t install any other software) it doesn´t work after starting Windows.
Only if I start the program and save changes (which I didn´t do), it appears again.
I un- and reinstalled the program... the same malfunction.
So I searched for th reason.
I found out when I doubleclick the 'wallpaperchanger.exe' it works fine.
So made a workaround and set a lnk to the startup-folder, but this can´t be the way...
Do you the reason and can you help?
Thanx, Axel.

 

[Brink]

Hello Axel, and welcome to Seven Forums.

The Oceanis program must be running for it to work and keep your wallpaper changed to what you selected. Whenever the program is closed, the wallpaper will default back to the default Windows 7 Starter wallpaper.

It sounds like Oceanis may have been removed from running at startup, and you adding it back to the Startup folder would have course fixed this. By default when installed, Oceanis is set to run at startup and run in the background unless changed or removed.

 

[dthx]

Ok, I have downloaded and installed the Oceanis software, I assume correctly (Its working anyways). Except as I "Browse" for photos none turn up, even when I know I am looking at a folder full of .jpeg files. Do I need them in a different format? What's going on here?

Dave

 

[Brink]

Hello Dave, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It's real picky on what folder you select to open when browsing. The folder you select must have images in itself and not in one of it's subfolders to be able to see them displayed in Oceanis. For example, if you select your Pictures library, then you will not see the images since the images are actually in one of the included folders in the Pictures library instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[dthx]

Thanks Shawn,
I threw the .jpeg's in the 'default wallpaper' folder in oceanis folder and it all worked, thanks for the help

Dave

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Dave.