Windows 7 appearance and personalization

The first group of themes Aero provides nice background images from which to choose. Double-click a theme to select it. If you don't want to make any changes, exit from the window. Windows will cycle through the images in a theme if your PC is on AC power, but not on battery power unless you change the default setting discussed below. Click Desktop Background at the bottom of the window. All the images in your theme display in the "Choose your desktop background" window.

Remove the check mark by any image you don't like. Windows will rotate the selected images as your desktop wallpaper. If you want a static background, double-click on the background image you want, and the image will move to "My Themes" and become the desktop background. You can save the theme or just exit the window. Don't forget to click Save As before leaving the "Choose your desktop background" window. After saving your changes, you are returned to the Personalization window.

Your theme has been placed in the My Themes section. Click Save theme if you wish to name your theme. To change themes, just choose a different theme in the main section or in the My Themes section. To delete a theme, right-click on the theme and click Delete. Then click Yes on the confirmation window. You cannot delete the active theme. If you don't like any of the themes on your PC and you are connected to the Internet, click Get more themes online and follow the directions.

A KeynoteSupport. You may have noticed that when your monitor remains idle for a certain period of time, a screen saver - or moving image - activates. It used to be harmful to monitors to sit idle with the same image on the screen.

This may still be a concern if you use an older CRT cathode ray tube monitor, but the flat screen and laptop monitors are not susceptible to this problem. Windows 7 comes with a very small selection of screen savers. First, open the Personalization window by right-clicking on a blank area of the desktop and clicking Personalization. Now click Screen Saver at the bottom of the window. The "Screen Saver Settings" window displays.

Click the down arrow under Screen Saver and make your selection. Click Preview to see the screen saver in action. You may also choose how many minutes should pass before Windows 7 displays the screen saver. If you choose 3D Text, click Settings. Type your text, font, rotation, and other options. Click Display Settings to see the screen saver. It is very popular to decorate the background of Mac, Windows, Desktop or Android device beautifully.

How to Create a 'Personalization' Shortcut in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Information This tutorial will show you how to create or download a Personalization shortcut that opens directly to the Personalization window to change the visuals and sounds settings in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Microsoft hit the news headlines, quite frequently this year, with a lot of products including Windows 7 and Bing. Both Windows 7 and Bing received a lot of good reviews from the world wide user community.

While Bing was considered a Google killer, Windows 7 was declared the best ever OS that microsoft had ever made. To show support for Windows 7, Bing community editorial lead Stephanie Horstmanshof announced the availability of some of the best Bing wallpapers for Windows 7. Bing users would have noticed a different background picture on the search interface, every day.

Some of those Bing wallpapers are splendid examples of photography. Due to popular demand for desktop versions of Bing images, the Bing homepage team selected the top images from June, July, and August, and then worked with the Windows 7 personalization team to create a Windows 7 theme pack featuring the 20 gorgeous wallpapers.

Windows 7 users will just need to download the pack and execute the file in order to personalize their desktops with Bing wallpapers. It must however be noted that this theme pack works only on Windows 7. However, I am sure that it will not be long, before these splendid Windows 7 wallpapers and themes are made available for other windows OS like XP and Vista. Until then, download Windows 7 Bing themes and enjoy them on your Windows 7 desktop!

If you are not satisfied with just windows 7 wallpapers, you can download Windows 7 RC. Update — Though windows 7 RC is no longer available for free download, you could download Windows 7 Enterprise Trial and use it free for 90 days. Windows 10 has changed a lot of things when it comes to internal settings and user interface. While some of the changes like the Start Menu and dropping Charms bar are highly admired by the users, there are many changes users are still not able to cope with. However, you will find many new options including the ability to choose the number of recent items to display in Jump Lists.

On the Toolbars tab, you can choose which toolbars you want to add to the Taskbar. For the most part, the settings on these tabs are the same as they were in previous versions of the Windows operating system. When you access the Fonts window, you will see all the fonts installed in the system.

The fonts with faded icons are installed but are hidden and will not appear in applications that allow you to select fonts. You can Show hidden fonts and Hide shown fonts. The stacked icons indicate a font family. You can also choose how you want fonts to be installed on your computer. This tree diagram presents a map of the Appearance and Personalization walkthrough.

Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry.

Image 1 of Previous Next. Desktop Background From the Desktop Background window, you can choose any of the available pictures or select your own picture to use for the background.