{"id":72,"date":"2010-05-12T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-05-09T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T20:18:24","slug":"windows-7-background-image-gets-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/tech-tips\/72\/windows-7-background-image-gets-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 &#8211; Background Image gets stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK.  A bit of the background.<\/p>\n<p>I have Win7 Ultimate.  I have my background pictures set to auto-rotate every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Every week or three, I change the folder that the pictures rotate through.  I&#8217;ve done this for a couple of months, and it&#8217;s been fine so far.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I grabbed a couple more images from Digital Blasphemy out of the &#8220;free bin&#8221;.  I then told Win7 to rotate through these.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t.  It stayed permanently on the last image from the prior choice.  I started checking everything.  I tried changing folders, changing themes, rebooting, changing screen resolution&#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked Google&#8230; after much digging on an old forum post, I found this:<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Themes\\TranscodedWallpaper.jpg<\/p>\n<p>If you delete that file, it fixes whatever was broken, and now my images shuffle again like I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. A bit of the background. I have Win7 Ultimate. I have my background pictures set to auto-rotate every 30 minutes. Every week or three, I change the folder that the pictures rotate through. I&#8217;ve done this for a couple of months, and it&#8217;s been fine so far. Yesterday, I grabbed a couple more images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[74,73],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-desktop-background","tag-win7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}