Windows 10 includes bunch of personalization settings that let you change your desktop background, windows colors, lock screen background, and more. Here is what you need to know to get your computer looking exactly how you want it.
We’re going to be talking about the Personalization settings Windows makes available at Settings > Personalization, so you might as well go ahead and try your hand on the various options available . There are certainly other ways you can customize your computer’s look, though, such as configuring folder options to display files the way you want or setting up Action Center how it makes sense to you.
Change Your Windows Background
The first set of options you can change control your desktop background and they should look pretty familiar to you if you’ve been using Windows for a while.
To use a picture as your background, choose “Picture” from the “Background” drop-down menu. Just like in previous versions, Windows 10 comes with a few pictures to choose from or you can click “Browse” and locate your own picture.
Once you choose a picture, you can decide how your picture will fit on your desktop–whether it fills, fits, stretches, tiles, and so on. If you’re using multiple monitors, you can also choose a “Span” option that uses a single picture across all your monitors.
If you want to rotate through a set of pictures for your background, choose “Slideshow” from the “Background” drop-down menu. To create a slideshow, you’ll need to select a folder from which Windows can draw pictures. You can’t select individual pictures–only folders–so go ahead and set up a folder with your favorite background pictures before selecting this option. After selecting your folder, you can also specify how often Windows changes the background picture, whether it shuffles the pictures randomly, and how the pictures should fit your desktop.
And if you prefer to keep things simple, you can just use a solid color as your background. Choose “Solid color” from the “Background” drop-down menu and then choose one of the offered background colors.
Unfortunately, the Personalization screen only lets you select one background, no matter how many monitors you have. If you do have multiple monitors, you can set a different background picture for each monitor by using File Explorer. Of course, there are also third-party utilities like John’s Background Switcher and DisplayFusion, both of which can control images better on a multiple monitor setup. They also both provide more advanced tools for working with backgrounds on a single monitor.
In the next post, I will show you how to change what colours Windows uses and where.
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