Spot the Differences
A while ago I wrote a post on how to remove Windows 7 Starter’s most annoying cripple tactic - the lack of the ability to personalise your background. The Windows logo just looked absolutely hideous as a background.
Recently, Liliputing mentioned another fix which you can use to get things right. And the best part is that I just got a new netbook – an Asus Eee PC 1015PN. As always, it came with Windows 7 Starter, and the first thing I did was to find a means of changing my wallpaper.
You can find the fix here, which works extremely well. A simple click-install-restart and all of a sudden you’ll be able to right-click on the desktop and see the Personalization option. Of course, Windows 7 being itself, it doesn’t come with to many nice backgrounds, so you’ll have to prepare your own. Among the other tools made by Vishal Gupta are hacks that enable you to run a screensaver.
Of course, if you’re like me and just gotten a netbook with Nvidia ION in it, then you’ll probably eventually upgrade to Home Premium or something else because Starter doesn’t support Nvidia Optimus…
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