Getting rid of the Windows 7 included wallpapers

...a how to.

Published on October 28, 2009 By Jafo In Personal Computing

Skinners like to mess with defaults....we screw up our systems quite well doing it, too.

This one had me stumped. I just could not get 'control' of the included folders in windows/web/wallpaper/ no matter what I poked and prodded.

The solution is a reg 'hack' to merge...and you can regain ownership of what are otherwise locked folders/images/etc.

http://www.herbystweaks.net/files/TakeOwn.zip

The only warning is that you are merging and thus altering registry entries...so if you are nervous about that....simply do not do it.

Included within the zip is a reversal option to restore your system to 'normal'.

Read the included text doc for details...

Comments (Page 3)

starkers

on Nov 01, 2009

Um....where'd this thread fall off the rails?

Don't blame me! Pirated by somebody other than me this time.... I just got lured by the onions & juicy steaks.

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 01, 2009

Buggered if I can see where some tin can for burning snags is of any relevance....

It's a good place to put your Vista disk...

RedneckDude

on Nov 03, 2009

Jafo

reply 30

Um....where'd this thread fall off the rails?

This is a skinning site....so working out how to alter an OS GUI such as taking control of locked folders is of probable interest to those who skin.

Buggered if I can see where some tin can for burning snags is of any relevance....

Jafo, I posted a screeny of my "take ownership" link in the context menu and these heathens just ran with that! Yall don't know how to act when they get around a redneck!!

starkers

on Nov 03, 2009

Jafo, I posted a screeny of my "take ownership" link in the context menu and these heathens just ran with that!

'Ere, who ye be callin' 'eathens? Pirates 'ave feelin's as well, yer know.

twifightDG

on Nov 04, 2009

omg this thread is so totally screwed

/bailout

RedneckDude

on Nov 04, 2009

DanDaBear

reply 27

Oh, and one barn dance we do annually is catered by the Firehouse Restaurant...a local place that has the best pulled BBQ this side of heaven!!! mmmmmm.....

So named because you have to pull it off the road, pull off all the gravel, pull off any hair remaining . . .

That's disgusting....even to a redneck!! lol

boss0190

reply 28

I almost got arrested for pulling my BBQ....

TMI! TMI!

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Jan 08, 2010

Be nice if 1080i was a regular res. ... I only use that now with my HD monitor and sometimes it gets a bit picky finding a good wall with the right stuff. Not saying much for regular walls included with win7 for that. But any and all HD's are good to go for me.

Bebi Bulma

on Jan 08, 2010

I used to tweak my OS all the way but in the end you always want to tweak it some more and end up going through a whole lot of trouble to gain.. well.. not so much.

I did that with my XP and it wasn't about disk space, I'm definitely in no shortage of that. I tweaked it just so it would be useable; XP is just so god awfully ugly and explorer lacking in a lot of features. The problems comes when you have to reinstall and redo all those tweaks, gah so much work.

But XP is hosed so I get to upgrade to 7 and not have to worry about most of the tweaks, whew.

I absolutely agree. Highest res widescreen should be the default (2560x1600), you can crop for any other res from that, but trying to work up from a smaller size or even worse, non-widescreen, is just impossible without losing quality.

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