How do i change my background with windows 7 on my netbook?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at
11:11 pm
I recently got a Sony netbook, its the small one, like 10" screen, and i can’t find an option to change the background to a picture, I can only change the color. My husband has a bigger laptop with windows 7 and has a "personalize" option. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
I tried right-clicking on the image, I don’t have the option of setting it as the desktop. I looked at the Windows website, and none of their suggestions exist in my computer.
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Assuming you have Windows 7 starter edition, you can’t change it. I think the only way to fix this is to upgrade.
i had the similar problem…left click on an image and select set as desktop background…you can center, tile or stretch
There is no way to change the background in Windows 7 Starter Edition. The image is locked to the BetaFish, locked by a hash and refered to in Shell32.dll so there’s no way around it.
Starter edition is mainly for emerging markets, and North America / Europe customers cannot even buy it if they wanted to.
Home Premium is suggested if you want the additional flexibility of changing the screen background (and a bunch of other functions that are not available in Starter).
How to Change Desktop Wallpaper Quickly in Windows 7
Published on 03 May 2009 by Nirmal in Windows 7
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Windows 7 has lot of changes in the UI when compared to Vista and one of the changes is the way wallpapers are controlled. In Windows 7 you can change wallpapers automatically from a collection after a specified time. If you have selected more than one wallpapers in Windows 7, then you can change desktop wallpaper quickly from the right click menu in Windows 7. For this features, you first need to make sure that either your theme has multiple wallpapers or you have selected multiple wallpapers from a folder.
To do this, right click on the desktop and select “Personalize”. Navigate to desktop backgrounds and select multiple wallpapers, you can also browse for any folder where you have wallpapers.
Once you have selected the wallpapers in desktop background settings, then you can change wallpapers by right click on the desktop. When you have multiple desktop backgrounds set, the right click menu shows an additional option “Next Desktop Background Picture”.
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