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Changing the picture for your lock screen is easy. (See the nearby sidebar “Individualized lock screens” for details about the difference between your lock screen and the system’s lock screen.) Customizing the picture is a favorite trick at Windows 10 demos, so you know it must be easy, right? Here’s how:

1  Click or tap the Start icon, the Settings icon, and then Personalization.

2 On the left, choose Lock Screen.The lock screen's Preview window appears.

3 From the Background drop-down list, first try Windows Spotlight, if it’s available (see Figure 2-2).FIGURE 2-2: Change your lock screen here.Windows Spotlight images come directly from Microsoft — more specifically, from Bing — and change frequently. Microsoft reserves the right to put advertising on Windows Spotlight screens, ostensibly to tell you about features in Windows 10 that you haven’t used yet. Remains to be seen whether other, uh, partners can purchase spots on the screen.

4 From the Background drop-down list, choose Picture.This selection (see Figure 2-3) lets you choose which picture will appear. If you like one of the pictures on offer, click it. If you’d rather find your own picture, click Browse.You can decide whether you want your chosen picture to be overlaid with “fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen.” Oh goodie.

5 If you find a picture you want, click it. If not, choose Slideshow in the Background drop-down box.This option ties into the Albums in the Windows 10 Photos app (see Book 4, Chapter 3), or you can choose to turn a folder of pictures into a slideshow. If you decide to go with a slideshow, click the Advanced Slideshow Settings link to set whether the slideshow can be pulled from your camera roll, whether the chosen pictures have to be large enough to fit your screen, and several additional choices.FIGURE 2-3: Choose your own picture, with or without Microsoft advertising.INDIVIDUALIZED LOCK SCREENSIf you read the Microsoft help documentation, you may think that Windows 10 keeps one lock screen for all users, but it doesn’t. Instead, it has a lock screen for each individual user and one more lock screen for the system as a whole.If you’re using the system and you lock it — say, tap your picture on the Start menu and choose Lock — Windows 10 shows your personal lock screen, with the badges you’ve chosen. If you swipe or drag to lift that lock screen, you’re immediately asked to provide your password. There’s no intervening step to ask which user should log in.If, instead of locking the system when you leave it, you tap your picture and choose Sign Out, Windows 10 behaves quite differently. It shows the system’s lock screen, with the system’s badges. Your lock screen and badges are nowhere to be seen. If you drag or swipe to go through the lock screen, you’re asked to choose which user will log in.Bottom line: If you change your lock screen using the techniques in this chapter, you change only your lock screen. Windows’ idea of a lock screen stays the same.

6 After you’ve chosen the background itself, you can specify what apps should provide details that appear on the lock screen. See the next section for details about Badges.You’re finished. There’s no Apply or OK button to tap or click.

Test to make sure that your personal lock screen has been updated. The easiest way is to go to the Start menu, click your picture in the upper-left corner, and choose Lock or Sign Out.