Lively Wallpaper is a fantastic app for adding animated wallpapers to your Windows 11 desktop. It’s free, open-source, and available on the Microsoft Store and GitHub.

Days after Microsoft released its last free Windows 7 security update, users reported that the update had curiously removed wallpapers and replaced desktops with just a black image. To some users ...

Microsoft is having to create a new Windows 7 update to fix a black wallpaper issue it introduced earlier this month. Windows 7 was supposed to receive its final updates in January, but now all ...

Microsoft has released the KB4539602 stand-alone update to fix a bug that caused Windows 7 wallpapers in 'Stretch' mode to display a blank black screen. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft released ...

The final update for the Windows 7 operating system has broken some of the desktop wallpaper functionality and caused user's backgrounds to become a blank black screen. On January 14th, 2020 ...

Not only will be there no more free security updates, but the company's last update has reportedly blacked out the Windows 7 screen's background, meaning unsupported PCs no longer have wallpapers.

It turns out that the last ever free update dished out to Windows 7 users, as the OS reached its end of support milestone/gravestone (14 th January), removed desktop wallpaper frills for some users.

As reported by The Verge, one of Microsoft's final free Windows 7 updates---KB4534310---is causing wallpaper problems for some users. After installation, an image can display as black ...