Desktop Wallpaper Slide-Show stopped working

I wanted to use the background slideshowing and it stopped working on my Windows. It's somehow funny, after restart Windows switches the background exactly 1 time. After this first time it doesn't work until I do another restart. I've tried several things to get it working, not loading all applications, using the built-in themes, removing graphics card drivers and much more.
But this is obviously a bug in Windows itself. (on 2 other PCs with Windows 7 RC it works like a charm).
Any ideas?
.

Deleting the SLIDESHOW.INI file located in:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\
did the trick.  It's a hidden file, so, if you can't see it, you must set your viewer to "Show Hidden Files"
Thanks for the help!
Whilst searching for a solution to this problem I tried all the suggestions on this thread. None worked for me but this one, from another forum, did:
Maybe your TranscodedWallpaper.jpg file has become corrupted.
Open explorer and type the following in the adress bar and hit Enter:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\
Here, rename TranscodedWallpaper.jpg to TranscodedWallpaper.old.
Next, double-click slideshow.ini file to open it with Notepad. Empty its contents. That is, select all the text and delete it. Save the changes (You'll probably need to remove the read only). Close explorer windows.
Now try editing your desktop background once more.
Like I said, this worked for me! Good luck if there's anyone else that needs help with this! :)

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