Cannot change desktop background in Windows 7 Home Premium

Anonymous

I noticed that someone else had this problem. Does anyone know how to fix it?

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Anonymous

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.

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Anonymous

2012-06-01T01:47:13+00:00

You saved my life! This helped a lot!! Thank you!
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Anonymous

2012-05-08T03:35:02+00:00

madmike - thank you so much! I spent the last 2 hours trying to fix this issue (background not changing) and your solution was the only one I was comfortable trying (all I know about registries is that I don't know enough about them to attempt changing it) was yours. I tried it, it worked and I am now happy. Thanks again!
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Anonymous

2012-04-28T18:23:04+00:00

I have the solution...

Go to start > "regedit" Press enter

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Look for "wallpaper"

Double click on it

Give your path to your image

Reboot the computer..
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Anonymous

2012-03-15T10:47:56+00:00

Thanks so much! This was an immediate fix.

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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