Hello Chen,
Double check to make sure that you did all of the steps in OPTION TWO to also install the Personalization Panel after you downloaded it. Once installed, right click on the desktop and click on Personalization to see the option to change the desktop background in step 5B.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I can finally stop griping about the uslessness of 7 starter, maybe.
so does the program only allow a certain area to be covered or can the whole screen be changed?
Hello Crazyfication93, and welcome to Seven Forums.
It depends on the size of the image you are using, and what Background Position (ex: Fill, Fit, etc...) you select, but yes it should be able to fill the entire desktop background with the image.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
Hi here jo...I have window 7starter and i cudnt change my desktop but as i followd your help and i cud change it:)am so happy...the option2 made me help...my great thanks...love Jo:):):)
Last edited by jokutty; 06 Jul 2011 at 07:23. Reason: corrected
I followed the direction to change background on window 7 starter edition. but when i restarted the computer all there was just black background. i tried to changed the name back to how it was originally but i still can't get it to have anything on my backgound. what went wrong?
Hello Krnxchunsa,
After you rename the default img0 JPG file back in the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows folder, go to registry location below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Next, check the Wallpaper string value in the right pane at the registry location above to make sure it has the Data value below for it.
%windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg
Hope this helps,
Shawn
Last edited by Brink; 06 Jul 2011 at 10:53. Reason: added quote
Is there a difference between using %windir% and %systemroot% on the wallpaper registry value?
It's just that %windir% was used by default.
They both open the C:\Windows folder in Windows 7, but here's the technical difference:
%systemroot% = System returns the location of the Windows root directory. Newer variable introduced in Windows NT and up.
%windir% = System returns the location of the OS directory. Older legacy variable.
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