How To Change Desktop Background On Windows 7

To jazz up your desktop, Windows vii covers information technology with pretty pictures known every bit a background. (Most people refer to the groundwork every bit wallpaper .) You lot tin easily modify the desktop groundwork in Windows 7 to allow your own personality shine through.

Right-click a blank function of the desktop and cull Personalize.

The Control Console's Personalization pane appears.
Click the Desktop Background option along the window'southward bottom left corner.

Try different backgrounds by clicking them; click the Browse button to run across pictures from dissimilar folders.
Click any of the pictures, and Windows 7 quickly places it onto your desktop's background.

Found a keeper? Click the Save Changes button to keep it on your desktop. If not, click the Moving picture Location menu to see more than choices. Or, if you're still searching, move to the side by side step.
Click the Scan button and click a file from inside your personal Pictures folder.

Almost people shop their digital photos in their Pictures folder or library.
Click Save Changes and leave the Desktop Groundwork window when you're satisfied with your choices.

Get out the program, and your chosen photograph stays stuck to your desktop as the background.

Here are some other tips for sprucing up your desktop epitome:

Adjust the way the pic looks using the Picture show Position option. Windows vii at present gives y'all Fill up and Fit options for enlarging minor photos, like those taken with cell phones.
Borrow whatsoever picture on the Cyberspace. Right-click on the Web site's picture and select Set as Groundwork from the pop-upwardly menu.
Right-click whatsoever photo in your Pictures binder and choose Set equally Desktop Background — for a quick wallpaper change.
If a background photograph makes your desktop icons too hard to find, attempt using a unmarried color, instead: In Footstep 2 higher up, detect Solid Colors on the Picture Location box's down arrow.
To change the unabridged look of Windows 7, right-click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and select a Theme. Themes impact backgrounds, icons, cursors, and sounds so that they coordinate with each other.