ModSe7en

Legendary Skial King
Contributor
I went through 10 pages in general and 12 in technology and couldn't find one, sue me.
Just managed to get wallpapers working on my shitty Netbook running Win7 Basic:
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Meowcenary

Gaben's Own Aimbot
Contributor
Try deleting the game shortcuts and launching them from Steam instead. Also, pin the programs you use all the time to the taskbar and delete the shortcuts.

Wow...can't believe I didn't think of that on my own. Thanks man, it actually helped quite a bit