Windows 7 Wallpaper Registry

The final update for the windows 7 operating system has broken some of the desktop wallpaper functionality and caused user s backgrounds to become a blank black screen.

Windows 7 wallpaper registry. Active 4 years 3 months ago. Most people refer to the background as wallpaper you can easily change the desktop background in windows 7 to let your own personality shine through. To use a custom login background in windows 7 you ll need to take two steps. We ll also show you a third party tool you can use as an easier alternative.

Windows 7 no longer reads this registry key. With windows xp you could set your own login background colors and or wallpaper by modifying the values found in the following registry location. To jazz up your desktop windows 7 covers it with pretty pictures known as a background. While the steps to set a login wallpaper are not.

This doesn t answer the op s question in that it doesn t only use the registry but as a follow up i never did find a satisfactory way to change the wallpaper using just the registry. Windows uses a background registry key system with the ability to change the default settings in manner that locks the wallpaper settings. If you can write and deploy some code i found that a win32 call to systemparametersinfo with the spi setdeskwallpaper flag made the wallpaper take. Viewed 14k times 1.

Right click a blank part of the desktop and choose personalize. It s a link 7. This question does not meet stack overflow guidelines. If one of the windows 7 registry tweaks download links is missing you should click on the headline for further instructions how to apply this tweak.

Desktop background slideshow is a neat little feature in windows 7 which helps you shuffle your desktop background from a image file store folder at predefined intervals. Editing the registry resolves the issue. The control panel s personalization. This issue varies if the following conditions are true.

But as windows doesn t show the file name of the currently displayed wallpaper it becomes a problem if you have thousands of images in a store folder and you need to find the file name and the directory location of the. Set a custom login background. Businesses commonly use this to maintain a consistent wallpaper across all owned and shared computers. If you want to enable dreamscene in windows 7 download our tweaking package for animated wallpapers and windows 7 themes.

If the domain user logs on the domain after you deploy the desktop wallpaper group policy setting the desktop background changes to black. However the setting is not applied to domain users who log on to client computers that are running windows 7 or windows server 2008 r2. Windows 7 8 wallpaper registry keys slideshow closed ask question asked 6 years 2 months ago. Click on headline 6.