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
2010-09-07T13:46:54+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.
This the only solution worked, thank you very much.
Yes! I tried the various solutions in this thread, and this was the one solution that "unstuck" my desktop wallpaper so it could be changed.
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Anonymous
2010-09-12T21:48:09+00:00 hi
i am using hp mini 2040 model. i am having the same problem and i tried everything above.
i am using windows 7 ultimate and its only showing black screen on wallpaper. and it is not changing. i tried everything but not solved. so can anyone tell me how to fix it. when i was using windows 7 ultimate N then it was ok but when i installed this version i am not able to change my wallpaper....
thankss
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Anonymous
2010-09-13T01:34:39+00:00 This worked for me, but I just went to the directory
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
itself and deleted the picture.
Thanks