Now, from the “Change picture every” pop-up menu, specify when you want your background picture to change: every day, every hour, every five minutes, or whatever.
Use the Browse button to find a promising-looking folder full of images. Fortunately, you can choose multiple desktop pictures from the gallery. The novelty of any desktop picture is likely to fade after several months of all-day viewing. That might be your graduation photo, or it might be a still from Frozen the choice is yours. It also offers you a Browse button that displays what’s in your Pictures folder, because it’s more fun to use one of your own pictures on the desktop. Picture starts you off with five luscious nature photos.
It’s not a bad idea, actually it’s a little easier to find your icons if they’re not lost among the details of a nature photo (or photos of your nieces and nephews). Solid Color is a palette of simple, solid colors for your desktop background. The Background pop-up menu offers three choices: (The blurbs and links in the right-side column appear only if the window is wide enough.)īackground is Microsoft’s new word for wallpaper (the image that fills your entire desktop background). As you adjust the background and color scheme options, this miniature desktop changes to show how it will look. The Personalization tab of Settings offers a simplified diagram of your desktop.
