FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 103Downloading Themes from the Store places them
in your list of Themes; downloading the Themes
with custom sounds from the second link requires
downloading the file to install it. Note that on the
Themes page of the Settings menus, you can click the
Sounds icon, which will open up the Control Panel. That’s
handy if you tire of the custom sounds of a Theme and
just want to revert to the traditional Windows sounds.
Feel free to download as many Themes as you
want, then select which Theme to use in the Settings >
Themes menu. Under Settings > Background, you can
select how frequently the individual backgrounds in the
Themes cycle through. I prefer one per day, but you can
refresh them as frequently as one per minute.If you’re a photography fan, there’s a wealth of free backgrounds
to choose from in the Themes portion of the Microsoft Store. One
quirk: you have to access these Themes from the Settings menu.
They’re not accessible via the main Store app at presentFEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 103Downloading Themes from the Store places them
in your list of Themes; downloading the Themes
with custom sounds from the second link requires
downloading the file to install it. Note that on the
Themes page of the Settings menus, you can click the
Sounds icon, which will open up the Control Panel. That’s
handy if you tire of the custom sounds of a Theme and
just want to revert to the traditional Windows sounds.
Feel free to download as many Themes as you
want, then select which Theme to use in the Settings >
Themes menu. Under Settings > Background, you can
select how frequently the individual backgrounds in the
Themes cycle through. I prefer one per day, but you can
refresh them as frequently as one per minute.If you’re a photography fan, there’s a wealth of free backgrounds
to choose from in the Themes portion of the Microsoft Store. One
quirk: you have to access these Themes from the Settings menu.
They’re not accessible via the main Store app at present