74 PCWorld JANUARY 2022F E ATU R E WINDOWS 10 SETTINGS SUPERGUIDE
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f there’s one section of Windows 10’s
Settings app that could be considered
“fun” it would have to be the
Personalization section. This is where you
get to make your PC yours by setting the
background image, choosing a color
scheme, and getting the lock screen to
behave just the way you like it. Let’s take a
look at Settings > Personalization as part of
our Windows 10 settings superguide.- BACKGROUND
Ever since Windows 95 we’ve been using our
desktop’s wallpaper to express a little bit of
ourselves in this digital world. These days it’s a
lot easier since we don’t have to worry about
creating bitmap images, and can instead turn
to commonly used .jpeg and .png formats.
Not a whole lot has changed for
backgrounds since the ’90s other than the
quality of the images going up. You get to
pick between three options for your
background: Picture, Solid color, and
Slideshow. If you choose Picture you can
either select some of the built-in images, or
click the Browse button to choose an image
from your files.
Slideshow has a similar approach. By
default, the slideshow just uses whatever
pictures are inside your Pictures library, or you
can choose a specific folder on your PC—
Settings calls it an album. The Slideshow
setting offers the option to change the picture
at varying intervals from one minute to once a
day. You can also choose a shuffle mode if
you don’t want the images displayed in order,
and there’s an option to decide whether you
want the slideshow to run on battery power.
Finally, you can choose how the images will
be displayed, such as fill, fit, stretch, tile,
center, and so on.
If you choose to set a solid
color as your background, you
can pick from Windows’
standard options, or you can
create a custom color using
the built-in color picker.- COLORS
Once you’ve got the
background set, you can set
the colors to match. At the top
is a drop-down menu item - called “Choose your color”