PC World - USA (2019-02)

108 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019

HERE’S HOW PERSONALIZE YOUR PC

Themes from the Store

places them in your list of

Themes; downloading the

Themes with sounds from

the second page requires

downloading them, then

clicking the downloaded file

to install it. Note that on the

Themes page of the Settings,

you can click the Sounds

icon, which will open up the

Control Panel. That’s handy if

you want to use one of the

Themes with custom sounds,

but eventually tire of them and want to

switch back to the traditional Windows

sounds, instead.

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.

Your next stop

should be the Settings

> Colors setting, which

looks like an option to

select accent colors. Boring, right? Well,

no—the reason to explore is down at the

bottom, where you can select either a Dark or

Light theme. Try them both! Some people

really prefer less light blasting from their

laptops and monitors. Unfortunately, it’s not

Here, you can designate various apps to display updates via the lock screen,

which appears when you’re away from your PC for a time.

A Dark theme option is available via the Settings > Colors menu.