Unable to have a wallpaper

[Dave Hedgehog]

Hi Guys,

Hopefully one of your superior minds will be able to help me out here..?

I was using build 7264 and i ran one of the 'slmgr *' commands (i forget which one now sorry) and it suddenly came up with the water mark telling me my copy of windows was not genuine. Now my fault i know for being so inquisitive but nevertheless what's done is done lol!

So anyway i decided it was time to upgrade to RTM which i did successfully. I then activated the OS and all was good again.....
...EXCEPT I am unable to have a wallpaper anymore.

Obviously this is a hangover from my 'non genuine' alerts but i just wondered if anyone had any bright ideas before i go for a clean install?

Many Thanks,

 

[Tews]

Do a clean install of W7 and get rid of the left over garbage from your hard drive... problem solved...

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

Yeah thanks,

I'm aware of that option but can't really face a re-install just yet ( for some reason my DELL hangs for about 30mins at two points during the OS installation )

 

[multibot]

hi,

i think u can set ur wallpaper but only for once u boot
then i wish after each boot ur background becomes black.
if so happened i would like to say u that i also gone through this kind of probs n i may hav a solution of this without formatting ur previous installation.

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

Sorry Scorpionking i don't fully understand your reply.

I am not able to set the wallpaper at all. It lets me click on the wallpaper image i would like, but still it remains black (or any other colour; that, i am allowed to change lol)

 

[Tews]

I would be more concerned about your computer hanging up rather than a wallpaper issue... Please fill out your system specs and lets see whats causing this...

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

Ok thank you.

I will have to remotly connect to find out exactly. Please bare with me...

 

[andych]

I then activated the OS and all was good again.....

How did you activate the RTM???? If you have used any other method than a Genuine RTM Activation Key your system could be in reduced functionality mode.

 

[Tews]

How did you activate the RTM???? If you have used any other method than a Genuine RTM Activation Key your system could be in reduced functionality mode.

That's a possibility but he probably has an MSDSAA account, or Tech Connect..

 

[Dinesh]

As said by Tews, a clean install would be recommended. Even though you've activated it, the symptoms appears as if windows is not genuine.

 

[multibot]

ok den try 1 thing.........


just open a jpeg file which u want to set as ur wallpaper with paint and then after saving the file then again open it with paint and via paint try to set it as wallpaper n see if it works..


if it doesnt work then remove d crack if u used any to activate ur windows n then run a system repair wizard by ur bootable os dvd of windows 7.
n then if it works plz reply.....

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

Yes i fear i will have to go down the route of a clean install.

Many Thanks for the help guys

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

ok den try 1 thing.........


just open a jpeg file which u want to set as ur wallpaper with paint and then after saving the file then again open it with paint and via paint try to set it as wallpaper n see if it works..


if it doesnt work then remove d crack if u used any to activate ur windows n then run a system repair wizard by ur bootable os dvd of windows 7.
n then if it works plz reply.....

Will do, many thanks!