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
2012-01-28T13:41:48+00:00 I put that same command in, came up with "This folder is empty" No matter what I do my background stays black. If anyone can tell me something else to try, I would appreciate it.
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Anonymous
2012-01-23T12:31:42+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.
really it was very helpfull
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Anonymous
2012-01-08T12:54:28+00:00 hehe thx, works for me. Slideshow and background didn't working because of corrupt file indeed.
Thought it was ok, but it wasn't ;)
thx for posting ;)
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Anonymous
2012-01-05T13:28:56+00:00 OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you my friend this worked you should be paid by microsoft for doing their job :)