Personalize Settings In Windows 10 Comes With

If you select a picture, just point Windows to the file you want to use.

Here is what you need to know to get your computer looking exactly how you want it.

There are other ways you can customize your computers look, though, such as configuring folder options, or customizing the Start menu, Taskbar, Action Center, and icons however it makes sense to you.

Personalize Settings In Windows 10 Comes With

Just like in previous versions, Windows 10 comes with a few pictures to choose from, or you can click Browse and locate your own picture.

If youre using multiple monitors, you can also choose a Span option that displays a single picture across all your monitors.

To create a slideshow, youll need to select a folder from which Windows can draw pictures.

You cant select individual picturesonly foldersso go ahead and set up a folder with your favorite background pictures before selecting this option.

After selecting your folder, you can also specify how often Windows changes the background picture, whether it shuffles the pictures randomly, and how the pictures should fit your desktop.

Choose Solid color from the Background drop-down menu and then choose one of the offered background colors.

In the popup window, use the controls to select the exact color you want, and then click Done.

If you do have multiple monitors, you can set a different background picture for each monitor by using File Explorer.

Of course, there are also third-party utilities like Johns Background Switcher and DisplayFusion, both of which can control images better on a multiple monitor setup.

They also both provide more advanced tools for working with backgrounds on a single monitor.

You can pick an accent color from the predefined pallet of colors, or you can click Custom Color to get exactly the color you want.

Alternatively, you can select the Automatically pick an accent color from my background to have Windows automatically match a color based on the picture youre using as your background.

Your two options here are Start, taskbar, and action center and Title bars and window borders.

The first option uses the accent color as the background for your Start menu, taskbar, and action center and also highlights certain items on those elementssuch as app icons on the Start menuwith the same accent color.

The second option uses the accent color for the title bar of your active window.

We do, however, have a quick registry hack that can at least let you keep a black background on your Start menu and Action Center.

The second option uses the accent color on the title bar of active windows, though we also have another hack for you if you want to use the accent color on inactive windows, as well.

While this app mode setting doesnt affect every app, we do have some tricks you might enjoy for using a dark theme almost everywhere in Windows 10.

The lock screen, remember, is the screen you click to slide out of the way so you can get to the sign in screen where you enter your user name and password.

By default, your lock screen background is set to Windows Spotlight, which downloads and displays a rotating set of backgrounds from Microsoft.

Choose the option you want from the Background drop-down menu.