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If you've neutral bought a new laptop, enclosed enclosed one of the first things you're probably hoopla to appetite to do is personalize how it looks. Windows has requiescence of options for customizing what you see when you ajar up your device. You can naturalize a lock screen, use a photo or over-and-above image as your wallpaper, and pick a theme.

It's tangy simple and straightforward to do already you memorize your personalization settings. To do that:

• Click on the Alpha button
• Click on the cog figure to ajar up Settings
• Select "Personalization"

From here, you can manufacture a array of design changes to the interface of your PC.

Change your wallpaper

• Click on "Background" in the left-hand bar

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Here, you can gestation your wallpaper or set a slideshow instead.

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• Use the drop-down menu under "Background" in the mall windows to naturalize whether to use a picture, slideshow, or solid dyestuff as a wallpaper
• If you'd like to naturalize an image as your wallpaper, click on "Picture." Windows will give you some of its own options for photos beneath "Choose your picture."
• If you adopt to use one of your own photos, click on the "Browse" button. Select an image and click on "Choose picture."
• To gestation the format of the photo, click on the drop-down menu ground-level "Choose a fit." There are a number of unique ways you can use the image -- fill the space, for example, centermost it on the screen, or create a asphalt effect.
• Once you select a fit, you'll see your new wallpaper breech the Settings window; finger determining to illation to see what suits you (and your photo) best.
• If the image doesn't fill the entire screen, you can also naturalize a deeds color. Scroll down to "Choose your deeds color" and select a color. (If the image does fill the entire screen, then you won't see that option.)

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Adjust the sorting for your background.

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• If you'd rather skip setting a picture as your background, you can opt for a dyestuff instead. Select "Solid color" in the Deeds drop-down menu, and then pick a dyestuff from the tiles under "Choose your deeds color." You can also select a custom color.

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Click on a asphalt to set that as your deeds color.

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• Finally, you can select "Slideshow" from the drop-down menu under "Background." To naturalize which pictures will communicated in your slideshow, click "Browse" under "Choose albums for your slideshow," select a folder, and then click "Choose this folder."

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The slideshow will spectacle photos from whichever binder you select.

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• You'll then find deeper settings to naturalize from, such as how generally the slideshow changes images, toggling shuffle, whether to spectacle the slideshow on hail power, and how the image should fit the screen. You can also naturalize a deeds dyestuff for when the image doesn't fill the screen.

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Use these toggles and options to gestation your deeds slideshow settings.

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To set a lock screen

• Select "Lock screen" from the spinoff on the left

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Here, you can domesticize what you see when your device is locked.

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• Open up the drop-down menu ground-level "Background." You'll get three options: "Windows spotlight," "Picture," and "Slideshow."

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Use the drop-down menu to hierarchize your lock screen.

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• To use a static image as your lock screen, naturalize "Picture." Then select an image from the options ground-level "Choose your picture."
• As with your wallpaper, you can also use your own photo for the lock screen by clicking "Browse," using the pop-up window to cross to the image you like, and then clicking "Choose picture."
• To set up a slideshow to spectacle when your device is locked, click "Slideshow." You'll see a sector chosen "Choose albums for your slideshow," which shows the folders the slideshow will spectacle images from. To remove a folder, click on it and then click "Remove." To add another folder, click the "Add a folder" button, cross to the binder you'd like to select, and then click "Choose this folder."

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You can add or remove folders for your slideshow.

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• Below that, you'll see "Advanced slideshow settings." Click on that to domesticize settings like when to turnover off your screen, whether to lock or turnover off the screen when the device is idle, and whether to spectacle a slideshow when your Windows is on hail power.

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Use the toggles to domesticize your preferences for the slideshow.

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• The third lock screen perk is "Windows spotlight." This heart will give you a photo for your lock screen. You can outrank whether you like the photo and your giveback will be acclimated to hierarchize which photos follow.

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You can sire one app to dangle a dilatable cachet and over-and-above apps to dangle a undetectable cachet on the lock screen.

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• No rate which lock screen perk you choose, you can domesticize which apps will show up on that screen. Click the figure under "Choose one app to show dilatable cachet on the lock screen," and select an app from the drop-down menu. Under that, you can select deeper apps that will dangle a less-detailed cachet on the lock screen.

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Click on the asphalt and select an app from the drop-down menu.

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Choose an hard-hitting color:

• Click on "Colors" in the left-hand sidebar
• Click on the down-down menu ground-level "Choose your color." Here, you can naturalize enclosed Light and Dimday modes. If you select "Custom," you can naturalize shunned to use Light or Dimday mode for Windows and for your apps.

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You can designate dimday mode for your device and for apps separately.

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• Whatever you choose, you can then scroll down to "Choose your hard-hitting color," and select a dyestuff from enclosed enclosed one of the tiles there or pick a custom dyestuff by clicking on the + below.

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Choose a dyestuff from the tiles or add a custom color.

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How to use themes

Themes are a package of wallpapers, sounds, and colors that you can use to hierarchize your device. You can naturalize a thing that comes with your system, or get increasingly from the Microsoft Store.

• You can find "Themes" in the spinoff on the left, and you'll see your embraced thing in a window at the top of the mall area.
• If you want, you can click on "Background," "Color," "Sounds," and "Mouse cursor" to domesticize holiday of these features individually.

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You can save the thing you've created or pick a unique one.

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• Scroll down to "Change theme" to see some others you can naturalize from. As before, you'll see the waves of the changes in the window at the top of the page, and you can domesticize the background, color, sounds, and cursor individually. There is also a articulation to the Microsoft Store where you'll find deeper capacity to spectacle with.
• Click on "Save theme" to store the custom thing you've created.

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Use the buttons at the top to hierarchize a born theme.

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