I drove my self crazy trying to remedy this dilema for two days. I finally downloaded a program from Stardock called Windows Blinds. That solved my problem.
Cannot change desktop background in Windows 7 Home Premium
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I noticed that someone else had this problem. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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Anonymous
2010-08-25T17:28:41+00:00 I put the following in the run command:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
then deleted the bad picture, then everything worked fine after that. It was a corrupted picture.
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Anonymous
2010-08-22T15:37:46+00:00 hey can u help me.when i right click and try to go to my themes it says failed to load page whats wrong i cant even change my background pls help
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Anonymous
2010-08-03T22:46:42+00:00 Who is this Chris H???? How does this post have any relevance to this thread? How can the moderators be so useless? Does anyone have a solution that doesn't involve editing the registry? My NEW laptop has this problem as well...
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Anonymous
2010-08-03T22:43:14+00:00 This is not a legit solution. Its a software that you have to pay for that does what windows already should be able to. Did Chris H even visit the link??