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Windows 7 Starter Edition Doesn’t Allow You Change Wallpaper!

Posted March 29, 2009 – 6:07 am in: Windows 7
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As you probably know,  Windows 7 is available in six different editions: Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. Windows 7  Starter is the base of edition with limited set of features. For instance, it doesn’t let you enable the Aero theme, doesn’t come with Media Center, BitLocker, and Group Policy.

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Many users might wish to install Windows 7 Starter on netbooks or low configuration systems. If you are also planning to install Windows 7 Starter on your netbook and you would like to have your own desktop background, just think twice before installing the Starter edition. Windows 7 Starter edition doesn’t allow you change the default wallpaper! In fact, there is no ‘Personalize’ option in the desktop context menu itself (observe screenshot).

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Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite has observed this limitation in Windows 7 Starter edition. According to Paul, there are no additional wallpapers on the system, and none of the usual wallpaper changing methods work. (Even installing Windows Live Photo Gallery doesn’t work: The Set as wallpaper option remains, but doesn’t do anything.)

Other than that Windows 7 has many other limitations as well. For instance, in Windows 7 Starter, you can open up to only three programs at the same time. For example, if you start WordPad, Paint, and Calculator, and then you try to open a web browser, you will see a message telling you that you already have three programs open.

 How to change Starter desktop background:

If your PC has been bundled with Windows 7 Starter or you have installed Starter edition for some other reason and want to change the desktop background, we recommend you use the Starter Background Changer to easily set your picture as desktop background. We also recommend you download Personalization Panel program for your Starter and Home Basic editions.

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5 Comments

  1. m
    Posted March 29, 2009 at 3:53 pm | Permalink

    What is the point of starter edition?

  2. articles
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 4:35 am | Permalink

    Article on arid.net that talked about windows 7 starter edition and had suggestions on a better way to implement the starter edition for netbooks.

  3. Mark
    Posted November 12, 2009 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    You can use Stardock MyColors to change Windows 7 Starter Wallpaper.

  4. PTO
    Posted October 12, 2010 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    Old article, should be updated.

    There’s no more restriction about the number of opened programs.

  5. dhyra.com
    Posted December 8, 2010 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    agreed with PTO, you can open as many program as you like until your ‘windows 7 starter’ explode!

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