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Windows 10: Changing Your Wallpaper

 

If you’re here you’re looking to find out how to change your wallpaper in Windows 10.

They did change the name of this feature to Background. So no longer Wallpaper, not sure why they decided this, but it is what it is.

So let’s get started:

  1. Right-click anywhere on your desktop and click personalize:



  1. You will be prompted with a new Screen with the Background options:
          


  1. You want to select background on the left and you will see various options for the background.



  1. You will have a few options on the screen, one is the drop-down menu, that is labeled Background


Of the three options, you have:

Picture: This will be just one picture you can pic from your gallery. And this picture will never change. Once you choose this, you must click browse to pic an image from your gallery to use as the background.

Solid Color: this will make the background a solid color, and you can choose the color you want towards the bottom of the page, under choose your background color.

Slideshow: This will allow you to a folder with many images in the folder and it will cycle through all those images on your background. More on how to do this later.  

  1. Once you choose your background type, you will want to choose how it will fit. You will have a couple of options, you just choose one that you looks best to you, but here is what they do:            

Fill: Enlarges or reduces the image so that it fills every inch of the desktop without distortion. Parts may get chopped off, but this option never distorts the picture.

Fit: Your entire photo appears, as large as possible without distortion or cropping. If the photo doesn’t precisely match the proportions of your screen, you get “letterbox bars” on the sides or at the top and bottom.

Stretch: Makes your picture fit the screen exactly, come hell or high water. Your picture may be squished or enlarged.

            Tile: This option makes your picture repeat over and over until the multiple images fill the entire             monitor.

Center: Centers the photo neatly on the screen. If the picture is smaller than the screen, it leaves a swatch of empty borders all the way around. If it’s larger, the outer edges get chopped off.

Span: If you have more than one monitor, this option lets you slap a single photo across multiple screens.

A lot of those settings you can play around with to see if it looks nice and if your happy keep it. At the end of the day, you’re looking at it and should be happy with it.

Choosing the correct image is key, you need an image size that will match your monitor's resolution. I’m going to write another article about how to choose the correct image, you can see this article here:

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I hope this article was helpful for you, if you’re looking for any tech support, either remotely or if you’re in the Middleton WI are, you can contact me at my website:

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