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- Adding and Using an Additional Display
- Personalizing Your Desktop Background
- Selecting a Standard Window Color
- Creating a Customized Window Color
- Selecting a Screen Saver
- Saving a Desktop Theme
- Snapping Apps
- Managing Devices and Printers from the Windows Desktop
- Changing Default Settings for Media and Devices
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Personalizing Your Desktop Background
Windows 8 normally uses a photo background for the Windows desktop. If you want to change to a different background, a plain background, or select multiple pictures for your desktop background, this tutorial shows you how.
Right-click the desktop.
Select Personalize.
Choose a theme.
The preview of the current theme.
Click Desktop Background to select images or background colors.NOTE: Desktop Background = Wallpaper
If you’re a longtime user of Windows, you might remember that desktop backgrounds were once called wallpaper.
Click empty checkboxes to select images.
Open to select the picture position.
Open to select how often to change the picture.
Click to shuffle pictures.
Open to select other backgrounds (your photos, solid colors, and so on).
Click Save changes.
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TIP: Need More Background Choices?
If you are not satisfied with the standard desktop backgrounds, use the Browse button to locate a picture folder as a background source. You also can select a solid color for the desktop.
