To jazz up your desktop, Windows 7 covers information technology with pretty pictures known as a background. (Virtually people refer to the background every bit wallpaper .) You can easily modify the desktop background in Windows vii to permit your own personality smoothen through.

  1. Right-click a blank part of the desktop and choose Personalize.

    The Command Panel'southward Personalization pane appears.

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  2. Click the Desktop Background option along the window'southward bottom left corner.

    Try different backgrounds by clicking them; click the Browse button to see pictures from different

    Try different backgrounds past clicking them; click the Browse push to see pictures from dissimilar folders.

  3. Click any of the pictures, and Windows seven quickly places it onto your desktop's background.

    Found a keeper? Click the Salvage Changes push button to go along it on your desktop. If not, click the Picture Location menu to see more choices. Or, if you're even so searching, move to the next pace.

  4. Click the Browse button and click a file from within your personal Pictures folder.

    About people store their digital photos in their Pictures binder or library.

  5. Click Save Changes and get out the Desktop Background window when y'all're satisfied with your choices.

    Exit the program, and your called photo stays stuck to your desktop equally the background.

Here are some other tips for sprucing upwardly your desktop paradigm:

  • Conform the manner the picture looks using the Picture Position option. Windows 7 now gives you Fill and Fit options for enlarging small-scale photos, like those taken with cell phones.

  • Borrow whatsoever picture on the Internet. Right-click on the Spider web site's picture and select Set as Background from the popular-up menu.

  • Correct-click whatever photo in your Pictures folder and choose Set up as Desktop Background — for a quick wallpaper change.

  • If a groundwork photograph makes your desktop icons too difficult to find, try using a single colour, instead: In Footstep ii above, detect Solid Colors on the Pic Location box's down pointer.

  • To alter the entire look of Windows 7, right-click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and select a Theme. Themes affect backgrounds, icons, cursors, and sounds so that they coordinate with each other.

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