Replace The Default Wallpaper On Windows 7.

This also works on Windows Vista, Windows 8 and 8.1.

Well there is not much you can say about the default wallpaper that everybody sees when they first boot into the desktop on Windows 7.
It's, well, boring and not much to look at.

Windows 7 Default Background.

But here is how you can replace it with any wallpaper of your choic

You can use any image you want. It can be an image from the web or different wallpaper but it must be a JPG file for it to work.

You can convert any image such as a PNG or bitmap file to JPG, simply by opening the image in paint. Then saving it as a JPG file.

Once you have chosen your new wallpaper, open Windows Explorer.

Then go to C/Windows/Web/Wallpaper.

As shown here in image.

See also my video on how to do this.

This is where Windows stores all of the wallpapers.

In this folder you will see another folder named Windows.
Inside this folder is the default Windows wallpaper named img0.

You need to delete this file and replace it with your own wallpaper.
But Windows won't let you do it, as it's a system file owned by Trusted Installer.  So you first need to take ownership of it so you can delete it and replace it with your own image.

You can use a software called Take Ownership  to do this.

Take ownership of the image file img0 then you can delete it.

Or you can rename it to something like img0 old if you want to save it somewhere in case you want to revert back to the default image.

Once you have done this copy your new image into the folder then rename it img0 then go to themes and click on default theme.

Windows will now display your own custom wallpaper as the default background.

As you can see I have chosen Windows 7 beta as my default wallpaper.

Custom Wallpaper.

You can download Take Ownership from here.