There are a number of regional themes with multiple unique background images hidden from Windows 7 users. On a Windows 7 install with United States regional settings only the United States theme is shown but there are actually four more themes hidden from view. Below are all the regional themes included in Windows 7:
Accessing all the themes is easy to do once you know where to find them. The trick is to navigate to the C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT directory. The MCT directory within the Globalization directory is super hidden so it will not display even if show hidden files and folders is enabled. Just click on the address bar of any folder and manually type in or copy and paste in C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and hit Enter.
Once you have reached the MCT folder you will see five directories as listed below:
- MCT-AU
- MCT-CA
- MCT-GB
- MCT-US
- MCT-ZA
it was home basic orgnial version and i upgraded it to ultimate....
Please help i have only 1gb internet usage per month and i am simply wasting my mbs by downloading regional themes so pls help guyss
I guess these hidden Themes only exist on those versions, where the language is spoken in more than one countrie (EN -> US + GB + AU + NZ + CA). Okay, German is also spoken in Austria and Switzerland, but I believe to remember that the Austria Theme for example was published on microsoft.com some days or weeks after Windows 7 was available in stores. So there were only "main country" themes available on retail versions (Germany, France, Japan, USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China and so on).
So don't worry if it is not working in your version.You are not alone.
great website!
I also use Win7 Starter for 2 weeks now and this background is bullsh.. Bec of help of this site i could at least change the login-pic. But now the wallpaper must be removed - it´s nothing else than ugly.
Like Aishah+Roland this link "C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT" does not work. i get the answer "file not found"
Does anyone hv further informations?