How to Personalize Your PC
To get started, right-click on your desktop background and select Personalize.
A Control Panel window will appear, giving you the ability to change your settings.
Select Desktop Background to change your wallpaper. Your PC will already have some correctly sized images pre-loaded.
You can select more than one image by checking the box at the top-left of each pic.
Then, use the drop-down menu below to set how often you'd like the image to change.
Alternatively, you can use your own images.
Simply put the photos you want to use into a folder, and then select this folder after you've clicked the Browse option.
As before, you can use the drop-down menu below to set how often you'd like the images to change.
You can personalize your PC's color scheme to a tone you like.
Click the Window Color option to pick a shade, then play around with the intensity, hue, saturation and brightness until you're happy with it.
Hit Save Changes and the color will change.
You can customize the sounds and alerts your PC makes.
From the Sounds option, select an existing sound scheme from the drop-down menu, or change the sounds by individual program event.
The Screen Saver option lets you choose from pre-loaded designs.
Use the drop-down menu to see the available options as well as a preview.
Or you can use your own images as a slideshow screensaver.
To set this up, select Photos from the drop-down menu, then click on Settings.
Here you can browse for the folder of images you'd like to use, set the slideshow speed and set shuffle options.
Once you've completed the previous steps, save your theme.
Simply click the blue Save Theme text in the window and give it a name.
Now, when you open the Personalize menu, you will see your saved theme.
You can share your theme with others. Simply right-click on it and select Save Theme For Sharing.
This will give you the option to save it as a .themepack file, which you can then email to others.
If you'd like to browse more options, Microsoft offers tons of free themes for download.
You don't have to opt for boring yellow folders. Customize them into any shade you'd like with some nifty freeware.
Folder Colorizer is a quick download that changes the hue of your PC's folders.
Once downloaded and activated, simply right-click on the folder you'd like to personalize and select Colorize.
We've shown you how to change your wallpaper, but you can also personalize what you see when the login and logoff screens appear.
The Windows 7 Logon Background Changer tool offers a range of beautiful imagery, or the ability to upload your own photo.
Windows Media Player's design is pretty dull. Thankfully, Microsoft offers a range of skins free to download.
Select from games, movies and techie themes for a design you admire.
Use Fences to customize your desktop and hide icons, such as boring work files, when they are not in use.
Fences helps beautify your desktop by creating shaded areas, which become movable and sizable containers for your icons and fade in and out as you need them.
Would you like an animated dock? Steal some Mac OS thunder with the free version of ObjectDock.
You can have all your favorite programs, quick launch and pinned taskbar items, a dynamic weather docklet and more, positioned and sized to suit your preferences.
If you want to take the customization even further, delve into ObjectDock's settings to select various mouse-over effects.
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