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Make your PC Your Own with the Windows 7 Personalization Feature
Posted by staffwriter in Tech Tips
Remember how limited the options for customization were in Windows XP? All you could do was choose from a few factory preset themes and change your background. Now, with Windows 7, you can truly make your computer’s theme just the way you want it.
Step 1: Get to the Personalization Screen by right clicking on your desktop and clicking “Personalize”.
Right Click on a free part of your desktop (not on a shortcut or file)
Step 2: From the Personalize screen, we are able to change all of our personalization features, including desktop background, windows color and Screen Saver, all at once.
The Customization Window is a fun, easy to use feature of Windows 7
Step 3: For this guide, we’re going to use the Windows 7 theme from the Aero Themes section. Once you pick a theme you like and click on it, Windows will automatically apply it.
Step 4: Next we’re going to apply custom desktop backgrounds. Yes, backgrounds (plural). In Windows 7, you can apply more than one background, and have them cycle at regular intervals, or whenever you choose for the next one to come up.
To do this, click on the Desktop Background icon, and then pick the wallpapers you would like. In addition to all the back grounds offered by Windows, you may also pick a solid color as your background, or select any number of custom wall papers or pictures, all by picking a different picture location from the drop down menu, or by browsing for your own photos. In the drop down menu, you can select the interval that the wall paper changes. After you have chosen your backgrounds and the intervals at which they will change, click Save All Changes.
From this window, you can pick your wallpapers and how often they change
You may also pick a basic color if you prefer
Step 5: Now we’re going to change the windows color. The windows color you select will change the color of the task bar at the bottom of the screen as well as the title bar (the top of every window you open).
To do this, click on the Windows Color button. Pick what ever color you want – they can be your favorite team’s color, your business’s color, a color to match the rest of your backgrounds, or just your favorite color.
After you pick a basic color, you can to chose to enable transparency or not. While transparency looks pretty darn sharp, it can be taxing on older systems running Windows 7. If you have a newer system, or your computer came with with either 7 or Vista, you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
Now you can move the Color intensity to suit your preferences. The less intense the color, the more see-through the windows become (if you enabled transparency). Once you are finished with your color changes, click Save changes to go back to the main personalization screen.
Pick your Windows color and customize your transparancey settings from there.
Step 6: The final step in this guide is selecting a screen saver. All you need to do is click on the Screen Saver icon, and then pick your screen saver from the menu. Once you’re done, click OK, then close the Personalization Window.
Pick whichever screen saver you like; 'Savers like 3D Text may require further set up.
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