If there’s one section of Windows 10’s Settings app that could be considered “fun” it would have to be the Personalization section. This is where you get to make your PC yours by setting the background image, choosing a color scheme, and getting the lock screen to behave just the way you like it. Let’s take a look at Settings > Personalization as part of our Windows 10 settings super guide.
1. BACKGROUND
Ever since Windows 95 we’ve been using our desktop’s wallpaper to express a little bit of ourselves in this digital world. These days it’s a lot easier since we don’t have to worry about creating bitmap images, and can instead turn to commonly used .jpeg and .png formats.
Not a whole lot has changed for backgrounds since the ’90s other than the quality of the images going up. You get to pick between three options for your background: Picture, Solid color, and Slideshow. If you choose Picture you can either select some of the built-in images, or click the Browse button to choose an image from your files.
Slideshow has a similar approach. By default, the slideshow just uses whatever pictures are inside your Pictures library, or you can choose a specific folder on your PC— Settings calls it an album. The Slideshow setting offers the option to change the picture at varying intervals from one minute to once a day. You can also choose a shuffle mode if you don’t want the images displayed in order, and there’s an option to decide whether you want the slideshow to run on battery power. Finally, you can choose how the images will be displayed, such as fill, fit, stretch, tile, center, and so on.
This story is from the January 2022 edition of PCWorld.
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