Windows Control Panel Desktop Background Regedit Tutorial
One of the easiest ways to personalize your Windows desktop is to configure your Desktop Background in the Control Panel area of functionality.
You can have a desktop background that is like a slideshow where you control the time between slides, or you can just have the one photo or image. It is tailorable at a user level. By this, we mean that one user can have a different desktop background arrangement to another user.
As this can affect the power used by a laptop running on battery you can control whether the laptop desktop background toggles between images where it is running on battery only.
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So please enjoy our tutorial showing the Control Panel view of configuring a Desktop Background on Windows 7.
And so we come to the second part of the tutorial … viewing how the Desktop Background is stored in the Windows Registry. We consult this useful link to examine how Control Panel Desktop Backgrounds function “behind the scenes” with our Windows version, via the regedit command. We even attempt to change it by copying another image into the image filename we glean from this (see the unsuccessful copytowallpaper.bat) second part of today’s tutorial. Hope you learn some things with this about Windows Registry, if all this is new to you. If your knowledge is not good, Windows Registry is not a place to do things you know nothing about … please be careful.
Hope to see you again soon.
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