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
2013-06-09T10:47:35+00:00 This i found very helpful. I can now change the desktop background picture at will.
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2013-04-16T19:29:38+00:00 Thank you so much! Worked great! I'v been trying to figure this out for few day, it's been driving me carzy!
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2013-03-22T18:56:42+00:00 I followed the path and deleted photo that was there.. Now I have nice backgrounds. Before that just black. The company might have pushed it down like that though but oh well.
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2013-03-14T02:50:39+00:00 I have looked and looked for an answer and this was my problem there was a thing called unattend in there once deleted my background was changeable