When we get Windows 7 Starter Edition Build 7068,  we are treated to this nice desktop as a default: Pretty, right? No.  This is a take off of the fish wallpaper in the beta of Ultimate:    Well, you say, I don’t like these very much.  I’ll just change them.  Wrong!  In Windows 7 Starter Edition Build 7068, you may not enter the Display Prefrences control panel section to change the background.  You are stuck with a gray fish forever. Even other methods of changing it such as from Windows Photo Gallery do not work. Rafael from Within Windows explains the situation like this:   As for the technical side, a new licensing bit was introduced –ChangeDesktopBackground-Enabled. On Starter Edition SKUs, this bit is set to 0, disabling background setting capabilities in Windows Photo Viewer and the Display/Theme Control Panel applets. The infection goes deeper into system files shell32.dll and themeui.dll too, hard-coding the wallpaper to %windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg. As many times before, he has found a workaround, suggesting that one can log in as adminstrator and reset the permissions on img0.jpg, then overwrite the file. Another alternative would be to use third-party software.  The inability to change wallpaper now adds on to Microsoft’s list of features to take away or dumb down in Starter.You can view a chart showing full comparison of major features in each of the SKUs here. Here are a few...