How to change the wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition

Posted by V. Schreiber on Super User See other posts from Super User or by V. Schreiber
Published on 2009-11-12T16:37:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 1:53 UTC
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Is there a way to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition? I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no "Customize" option in the control panel. Microsoft obviously wants to keep the netbook users rather rigidly from customizing their machines. It isn't even possible to edit the picture itself in the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows\ directory, due to lack of rights. From what I can tell only the user "Trusted Installer" would have enough rights to do so...

Update: With your help I found two programs that are able to bypass Microsoft's limitations:
Starter Wallpaper Changer (Thanks to Sopan and javier. I'm using this program now)
Wallpaper Changer for Windows 7 (Thanks to Sathya)

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