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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2014-11-02T08:55:30+00:00 very helpful thenx bro you are really genius
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2014-07-05T19:21:06+00:00 AWESOME!!!! Thank you for this post I had the same problem and this procedure corrected it 100%.
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2014-04-30T13:12:27+00:00 great fix it was driving me crazy
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2014-01-30T20:28:50+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.
AFTER months..looking at all answers..came across this...Open/view HIDDEN FILES first..then you can just type in " run "..then the little box opens..then type in the command..then the folder opens...then delete the picture that is still on the desktop...then start fresh !!!!!!
All pictures can now be " set as background " by just right clicking !!!!!
Must have been a corrupt picture...