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There are a lot of ways to customize your Windows desktop. One of the most popular is changing the background or wallpaper. The following sections shows you how to do so in the various versions of Windows. To proceed, select your version from the list below and follow the instructions.

Windows 10

1. Press the Windows key, type Settings, and then press Enter.
2. In the Settings window, click the Personalization option.
3. On the left side of the window, click the Background option.
4. In the Background window, in the Background section, click the button.
5. From here, you may choose to use a picture, color, or slideshow as your background.

6. You may choose a color or, if you want a picture or slideshow as your background click the button and navigate to the image(s) location.
7. If you went with an image, you may customize where and how the picture sits in the Choose a fit section.

8. When you're finished with your selections, click the close button in the upper-right corner of the window.

Note

The Fill option increases or decrease the width of the picture to fit the width of the computer screen. The Fit increases or decrease the height of the picture to fit the height of the computer screen. The Stretch option makes the picture fit the entire computer screen, which may result in the picture being distorted.

Windows Vista, 7, and 8

1. Right-click any open part of the desktop screen.
2. Click Personalize.
3. Click Desktop Background.
4. Click Browse.
5. Find the location of the picture you want to use and click OK.
6. Put a check mark in the picture you want to set as the Windows background.
7. Choose from Center, Tile, Fit, Fill, or Stretch for the Picture position option, to select how the picture is displayed as the background on the desktop.

Note

The Fill option increases or decrease the width of the picture to fit the width of the computer screen. The Fit increases or decrease the height of the picture to fit the height of the computer screen. The Stretch option makes the picture fit the entire computer screen, which may result in the picture being distorted.

8. To do a picture slideshow on your desktop, either choose Select all, or hold down Ctrl and choose each picture you want to use. Also, you need to choose how often the picture changes. The time range can be anywhere from 10 seconds to 1 day.
9. Click Save changes to set your selected picture(s) as the new Windows desktop background.

Note

If you have Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 8 Basic on your computer, the 'Personalize' option may be greyed out or not available at all. To change the desktop background, click the Start menu button and type change desktop background in the Search box. In the returned search results, click the 'Change desktop background' option. You can then use the steps above, starting with step 3, to change the Windows background.

Windows XP and earlier versions

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Open Display Properties in the Control Panel.
3. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 users click the Backgroundtab. Windows XP users click the Desktop tab.
4. After selecting a new background picture, click OK to save the changes.

Originally, Microsoft Windows has a list of default Windows backgrounds. To change the background to a different picture (e.g., your dog or family), click the browse button and browse to the directory of the picture.

Note

Windows 95 users can only set BMP images as their desktop background. If you have a different format of image, you need to convert it to a .BMP image before it can be the background. All other Windows users should be able to set a .BMP, .JPG, or .GIF image as their background.

Why do I have no background image?

In the listing of the available backgrounds, the first choice is None. Selecting this option disables any background image on your computer desktop. However, it is important to note that when you change the background to None, your background will be a solid color instead.

Windows XP users can change this color from the same window where they change their desktop. All other users need to change the color of their desktop through the Appearancetab.

How do I make a small image tiled or not tiled across the background?

In the desktop or background properties window, a user can customize the layout of their image by selecting Center, Tile, or Stretch. Below is a brief explanation of each of these settings.

• Center - Centers the image in the middle of the desktop. Centering enables the user to only have one image set as their background instead of having it tiled. If the image is smaller than your computer resolution, then you may have a solid color border around it.
• Tile - Tiling an image uses a smaller image and duplicates it across the desktop instead of centering or stretching it to fit the screen.
• Stretch - Stretches a single image across the whole screen. The smaller the image size, the more distortion you notice when stretching an image. An image that is smaller than your monitor's resolution result in pixelation of that image.

Why am I unable to see my background?

Your desktop background might not display if the image file was deleted or if active desktop is enabled on the computer.

1. Verify the image used as the background is still available on the computer and can be viewed.
2. Disable Active Desktop.

Additional information

• See the background and wallpaper definitions for further information and related links.

Windows Xp Background Location

The Windows XP wallpaper, known to everyone as Bliss, is without a doubt the most famous desktop background that ever got to see daylight, and this is mostly the result of how successful the operating system turned out to be.

And while many people know how the wallpaper eventually became so popular, the untold story of Bliss includes a plethora of captivating details proving that choosing a new desktop wallpaper for the world’s number one PC operating system isn’t just happening overnight.

Bliss is the creation of photographer Charles “Chuck” O’Rear, who took the picture in 1996 when he was driving down Highway 121 in the Napa Valley wine region. The photo in question was a medium format film negative that O’Rear shot with a Mamiya RZ67 on a tripod and Fujifilm Velvia film.

The photo itself was uploaded to Corbis, a digital image service (more like stock photo websites) that Bill Gates himself founded, and was picked by Microsoft in 2000 as the default wallpaper for Windows XP.

The shipping adventure

Choosing the new Windows XP background, however, wasn’t an easy thing to do. Microsoft employees started looking for photos and eventually decided to stick with Bliss, though getting their hands on the actual image was a more complex process than initially thought.

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The software giant purchased not only the rights to use the photo as the desktop background in Windows XP, but also the slide it was originally captured on, so Microsoft requested the photographer to deliver the film as well. This proved to be more complicated that it seemed to be given how much Microsoft paid for the photo. Although no specifics were provided, it’s believed the price was somewhere in the low six figures, so shipping the photo and the slide required a very expensive insurance.

Microsoft asked O’Rear to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent him from disclosing how much money he received for the photo, but it’s believed this was the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image.

FedEx itself refused to ship the photo without a hefty insurance cost (some say that the typical insurance wasn’t enough to cover the value of the shipment), so in the end, it all turned out to be more affordable for Microsoft to actually buy a plane ticket and have everything delivered in person by O’Rear himself. This is exactly what happened and the photographer travelled to Seattle to hand-deliver the content to Microsoft’s engineering team working on Windows XP.

No digital retouches

The actual photo that Microsoft used was a scanned version, and although you’d think it would’ve been easier for O’Rear to simply professionally drum scan the image and email it to the company, that wasn’t possible given the technology available at that time. Doing this would have generated a huge image file with a size of several gigabytes, and by having the photographer travel in person to their office, Microsoft picked the most convenient and cost-effect option.

For people wondering whether Microsoft Photoshopped the photo or not, the Bliss wallpaper is nothing more than the original picture as O’Rear took it, with no refinements whatsoever. Microsoft said that it darkened the green hill a little bit, but other than that, no edits have been made.

The choice of gear, however, is believed to have contributed to the colors in the wallpaper, as the Fujifilm Velvia itself is known as a film that can help oversaturate some colors.

“It made the difference and, I think, helped the 'Bliss' photograph stand out even more,” the photographer himself explained. “I think that if I had shot it with 35 mm, it would not have nearly the same effect.”

Free Windows Xp Background

For anyone looking for more information on the location where Bliss was shot, here you go.