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
2010-10-14T07:48:15+00:00 Worked for me I'm running a dell mini 1010 with windows 7 home premium THANKS.
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Anonymous
2010-10-13T18:11:30+00:00 IN control panel/system and security/power options/edit plan settings
change advanced power settings
make sure desktop background settings for slideshow are active and not paused
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Anonymous
2010-10-12T21:19:22+00:00 This worked for me too:
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
2010-09-24T01:43:32+00:00 exactly same problem slideshow setting in power plan had been changed to paused somehow
http://www.sevenforums.com/themes-styles/112152-wallpaper-slideshow-doesnt-work.html