How to change the background on windows 10

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How to Change Backgrounds and Colors in Windows 10

You can customize the colors and appearance of Windows.

Personalization Settings

Follow these steps to access your personalization settings.

1. Click the Start button.
2. Click the Settings button.
   

   Settings categories appear.

3. Click Personalization.
   

Here you have a few ways to change how Windows looks.

Change the Desktop Background

Here's how to change your desktop background.

1. Click the Background list.
2. Choose a background option.
   • Picture
   • Solid color
   • Slideshow
   

3. Click Browse to add a picture.
   

   Alternatively, you can choose a built-in background picture.

4. Choose a picture.
5. Click Choose picture.
   

Your picture appears as your desktop background.

Change the Accent Colors

Typically, Windows automatically chooses an accent color based on your background image. You have the ability to change the window and accent colors.

1. Choose Colors.
2. Unselect the Automatically pick an accent color from my background option.
3. Select an accent color.
   

   Window borders, icon highlights, and Start menu tiles change to the selected color.

4. Scroll down to the Show accent color section, and then select the Start, taskbar, and action center check box.

   The accent color is added to the Start menu, taskbar, and Action Center.

5. Toggle the Transparency effects option off.
   

   Without transparency, the Start menu, taskbar, and Action Center colors appear bolder.

6. Click the Start button to view and confirm the transparency setting.
   

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You can set the desktop background on your computer to any colour, picture or slideshow. You will find below the steps to Change Desktop Background in Windows 10.

When you setup a new computer, it will have the blue Windows 10 desktop background that most users are familiar with.

While the default blue Windows 10 wallpaper is good to look at, many users want to try other wallpapers, colours or their favourite photos as the desktop background on their computers.

Hence, we are providing below the steps to change desktop background in Windows 10 to any Colour, Wallpaper or Photo.

1. Change Desktop Background Wallpaper

Windows 10 comes with its own set of desktop background wallpapers that you can use to change the desktop background on your computer

1. Click on the Start button and click on Settings icon in the start menu.

2. On the Settings screen, click on Personalization tab.

3. On the next screen, click on Background (1) in the left pane. In the right-pane, click on the down-arrow (2) under ‘Background’ section and select Picture as the background type.

4. Under ‘Choose your Picture’ section you will see other Wallpapers available on your computer. Select the Wallpaper (3) that you want to set as the new desktop background on your computer.

Under Choose a fit (4) section, you can adjust the picture by selecting from Fit, Fill, Stretch and other available options.

2. Change Desktop Background to Solid Colour

Instead of displaying pictures, some users want to display Solid Colour as the desktop background on their computer.

Having Colour as desktop background, uses less resources and makes the desktop icons prominent and easy to find.

1. Open Settings > click on the Personalization tab.

2. On the next screen, click on Background (1) in the left pane. In the right-pane, select Solid Color (2) as the background type.

3. Under ‘Choose your background colour’ section, you can select from 24 available Colours or create a Custom Colour of your choice.

3. Change Desktop Background to Slideshow

1. Go to Settings > Personalization > click on Background (1) in the left pane. In the right-pane, select Slideshow (2) as the background type and click on the Browse (3) button.

2. On the next screen, select the Folder containing Photos that you want to include in the slideshow.

After selecting photos, you can set the Photo change frequency for the Slideshow by selecting your desired time period under Change picture every (4) section (See image in item#1 above).

You can set the slideshow to change pictures every 1 minute, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hour or to 1 day.

4. Set Any Photo As Desktop Background

1. Go to Settings > Personalization > click on Background (1) in the left pane. In the right-pane, select Picture (2) as the background type and click on the Browse (3) button.

2. On the next screen, select the Photo that you want to set as desktop background on your computer.

3. After selecting background Photo, you may have to adjust the layout of the background image by clicking on the down-arrow (4) under ‘Choose a fit’ section and selecting from the following options.

• Fill: The desktop background image will fill the desktop (image may enlarge or reduce in size)
• Fit: The image will be the same size
• Tile: The image will repeat to fill the entire desktop
• Stretch: Similar to fill, the image will stretch to fit the desktop
• Center: The image will be placed in the middle of the desktop
• Span: The image will span across the desktop

You can try all the options to fully understand them and choose the one that suits you the best.

5. Right-click to Set Any Photo As Desktop Background

Another cool feature in Windows 10 is that you can set any Photo located on your computer as the desktop background image by simply right-clicking on it.

1. Right-click on the Photo that you want to set as Desktop Background on your computer and select Set As Desktop Background option in the right-click menu.

2. The selected Photo will appear as the Desktop Background on your computer.

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