Windows 7 Professional wallpaper keeps disappearing

Question

I have a legal and activated copy of windows 7 professional. However for some reason my wallpaper keeps disappearing and defaulting to black?

I have no idea why, please help.

I have already tried doing this, but I am not running windows 7 beta... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110612062450AALUQok

Solution

I get this from time to time, I suspect its because I use BGInfo, which stores my wallpaper in the TEMP directory.

If you're setting it via IE and/or modifying it via BGInfo or a similar utility, it may be stored in the %TEMP% directory. If you or another program are cleaning this directory out regularly, when the systems boots, it can't find the last known location of the image. Try saving the wallpaper to a specific location (like your pictures folder) and set it from windows explorer, not IE.

Comments

[MDT Guy]

When is it doing this? during reboot?

[Ramhound]

If the installation is legit why would the author delete the file?