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To jazz up your desktop, Windows covers it with a pretty picture known as a background. (Many people refer to the background simply as wallpaper.)

Already looking at a photo you want to appear as your background? Right-click it and choose Set As Desktop Background from the pop-up menu. Your photo quickly splashes itself across your desktop to create a new background.

When you tire of the built-in scenery, feel free to replace it with a picture stored on your computer:

1  Click the Start button, and choose the Settings icon.The Settings icon resembles a gear. Click it, and the new Windows 11 Settings app appears. (I cover the Settings app in Chapter 12.)

2 From the left column of the Settings app, click the Personalization icon, and from the right column, click the Background section.The Personalization section of the Settings app opens to the Theme section. Scroll down and click the Background button; the Background section appears.

3 From the Personalize Your Background section, click Picture from the adjacent drop-down menu. Below that menu, click the Browse Photos button, shown in Figure 3-3, and double-click your desired photo.Found a keeper? Double-click the photo, and you’re done; your change takes place immediately. Or, if you’re still searching, move to the next step.FIGURE 3-3: Click the Browse Photos button to choose a photo from another folder for the background.

4 Navigate to your Pictures folder.Most people store their digital photos in their Pictures folder, either on their PC or on OneDrive. (I explain how to browse folders, as well as OneDrive, in Chapter 5.)

5 Click different pictures to see how they look as your desktop's background.When you find a background you like, you’re done. The change takes place automatically. Exit the Settings app with a click in its upper-right corner, and your chosen photo drapes across your desktop, like wallpaper beneath your desktop’s icons and open windows.

Here are some tips on changing your desktop’s background:

 Options listed on the Background page’s Choose a Fit For Your Desktop Image menu let you choose whether the image should be tiled repeatedly across the screen, centered directly in the middle, or stretched to fill the entire screen. The Tile, Fill, and Fit options work best with small photos by repeating or enlarging them to fit the screen’s borders. Feel free to experiment; you’ll want different options for different sized photos.

 The Microsoft Edge web browser can borrow most pictures found on the internet for a background. Right-click the website’s picture and choose Save Picture As from the pop-up menu. Microsoft sneakily offers to copy the image into your Pictures folder, where you can choose it as a background in Step 4 of the preceding list.

 If a background photograph makes your desktop icons too difficult to see, splash your desktop with a single color instead: In Step 3 of the preceding list, click Solid Color instead of Picture. When the colored squares appear, click one to splash its color across your desktop.

 To change the entire look of Windows, choose Themes from the Personalization window’s left edge in Step 2. The right pane lets you customize your computer’s look by clicking the Background, Color, Sounds, and Mouse Cursor sections, and then changing them to your liking. I explain more about themes in Chapter 12.