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Is there really no way to make the explorer background transparent in Wondows 7? I saw it in several places online, including youtube and etc, but no matter how much searching I do, I cannot find a straightforward way to do this. Does anyone here know? I'm not talking about chaoscrystal which...

QI want to watch the Windows 7 tutorial videos but the background music drowns out the commentary. Can I either cut the music out or reduce the volume? Link Removed

Everything is gone, my background, the Start button, date time in the right hand corner, the entire task bar at the bottom of the screen. I have uninstalled the AVG update and restored to just prior to the update but everything is still gone. I can access the desktop from the My Documents...

Hi all, my background doesn't look good. See attachment. I use windows 7 pro x64 and ATI HD4850. Anyone has any idea why?

I have the computer set up to put the monitor and the hard drives to sleep after 45 minutes. Apparently, I am using a thymes background where the thymes are auto changing every 30 minutes. My question is, will the thymes prevent the hard drives from sleeping? If the computer is not...

I am guessing its my settings in windows 7 or something? I never touched them. They worked fine before till now. I can hear my music but I can't hear the people singing (well that supposed to be singing) in the background of the music anymore. What did I do?

Hi everyone, I have quite a trivial problem, but it's really annoying me! I brought my laptop with Windows 7 64-bit preloaded onto it. The welcome screen and the screen where it shows all the usernames was black and my laptop came with a wallpaper preloaded onto it (black background with old...

Hello, I recently bought a new HP Pavilion desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium factory installed and installed some of my old games on it. Well, for the past week or two I've had this rather annoying problem where I leave my computer on for an hour or so, come back, wake the computer up only...

My minor annoyance is that my Desktop Background photo changes from “Fill” or “Stretch” to “Center.” This is an ongoing problem. If I go thru Customize and reset it to Fill after a while it goes back to Center. I have tried a variety of photos and all seem to do it. I’m using a Gateway...

I have Win 7 Ultimate ( fir like a year now 64 bit ) I have been using a theme with like 250 pick in that change every 1 min Now it Stopped changing backgrounds and I cant change it no mater what I do ( i have changed themes and everything imaginable pick still stays the same ) Don't know...

With the latest theme offered to Windows 7 users Microsoft is marking a first, changing the manner in which it has been delivering personalization content for customers running the latest iteration of its Windows client. With the Bing Dynamic theme pack for Windows 7, the Redmond company is...

hello. first off i wanna say i love the windows 7 forums. lots of information here. i was wondering, is there a way to take the windows 7 boot-up logo, the one thats a little animation of the 4 color balls coming together to make the win7 logo, and use it as a desktop background? like a small...

Hello, i recently reinstalled windows 7 on my girlfriends laptop, everything worked fine at the start but after 1-2 weeks it started changing her background into a black sceen. i have tried to turn of the odd random rotation where you can change between diffrent backgrounds but nothing seems to...

Hi, I just bought a Gateway computer yesterday with Windows 7 preinstalled on it, and last night I tried to wake it from sleep but when I did, it didn't show the taskbar, icons or start button. All I could see was the background. I tried the "ctrl+shift+esc" method to fix it, but when I hit...

I would like to place a jpg photo in the middle of my desktop and leave a plain background around it. What I have achieved is the photo (no background) and the photo is way too large for the screen. How do I do what I want? Thanks........

I know how to change the font and size of the desktop icons, but I do not know how to change the color of the font. The desktop is Aero theme, Sky window color, and the tiled attached background (Clouds.jpg).

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on an ASUS 501j laptop with an intel pentium dual core processor. I bought the laptop just over a week ago, and it had a clean install of Windows 7. Every now and then (I haven't worked out a pattern yet), my background will disappear and be replaced with a generic...

I'm seeing multiple icons for the same program in the notification area. This seems to happen if a program gets closed and restarted in the background. If I hover my mouse over the icons, the extras will go away and only one will remain, so it's almost like the notification area just needs to...

Remember that clever beta fish that was on the default background in Windows 7 build 7000? Why not use him for your RTM? Here it is, 1920*1200 resolution only.

I have a laptop and a desktop with Windows 7, but the change in background view area does not change to stretch, tile, center, etc. Using the proper menu for this, including saving changes, but no luck. Any Help? 64 bit.