Windows 10 includes bunch of new personalization settings that let you change your desktop background, windows colors, lock screen background, and more. Here is what you need to know to get your computer looking exactly how you want it.
The Personalization group can be found in the Settings. The first options are to change your desktop’s background. Windows 10, like other Windows versions comes with several backgrounds to choose from, or you can select “Browse” and add your own.
Alternatively, you use a solid color or set up your background as a slideshow with an option to change at a set duration.
Finally, you want to decide how your picture (if you use one) will fit on your desktop, whether it fills, fits, stretches, etc.
The next set of options are colors. The default option is to choose an accent color from a palette, or you can elect to have Windows 10 automatically pick a color from your background.
Below the palette, you can extend your color choices to the Start menu, taskbar, and action center. There’s another option below this to turn on transparencies for all these items. This last item may allow you to eke out a bit more performance if your graphics card is older and underpowered.
Want to change your background on the lock screen? Here is where you can do that. You can choose from an included set of backgrounds or set it as a slideshow.
If you decide on the slideshow option, you’ll need to choose an album.
Click “advanced slideshow settings” to include your camera roll, use only pictures that fit the screen, and whether or not to show the lock screen instead of turning off the screen when the PC is inactive. With this last option, you can set the screen to turn off after a set duration, or not at all.
Back on the lock screen settings, you can choose an app to show a detailed status, as well up to seven other apps to show quick statuses.
Below this, you will find links to set your screen timeout, as well as screen saver settings. If you want to learn more about changing your lock screen background, we recommend you read our article, which will explain everything in greater detail.
Next, you will find the Themes settings, which actually just open up to the tried-and-true personalization control panel.
Anyone familiar with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will no doubt recognize the Personalization control panel. We’re not going to spend a great deal of time discussing it other than to point out that Microsoft has removed the links to sound, icons, mouse pointers, and screen savers.
These items can be found on the Themes settings under “Related Settings”.
The last category in the Personalization settings are the Start options. We’ve talked at length about how to customize the Start menu, but in brief, you can use these settings to show most used apps, recently added apps, recently opened items, as well as show the Start menu in full screen mode.
Click “choose which folders appear on Start” and you can show up to ten folders to appear on the Start menu.
Once turned on, they can be found in the lower-left quadrant. Here, all of them are shown, but obviously if you don’t use a Homegroup or keep a lot of videos on your computer, you can pare things down to only the items you need.
Don’t forget that beyond these Personalization settings, you can further customize the Start menu by changing the size of tiles, turning off live tiles, moving content around, and giving tile groups names.
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