The computer will automatically rotate through all the photos. That’s it! One of the new photos will immediately be set as your wallpaper.
You can download a theme from Microsoft’s collection on the website by clicking on the Download link, then clicking once on the downloaded file. If you choose a regular theme and you have dual monitors, Windows 10 will automatically display a different picture on each monitor. (If you choose a panoramic theme for a single monitor, the picture will be cropped to fit.) Windows will extend widescreen photos across both monitors. Panoramic themes have wide photos chosen to span dual monitors. Panoramic themes for dual monitors are awesome It’s an alternative to the option to set a single picture as your wallpaper or rotate through a folder of your own photos ( Settings / Personalization / Background). For the most part, Microsoft does not muck around with cursors and sounds any more, so today’s themes are just photo slideshows. Today themes are still displayed in a separate tab in Windows 10 Settings / Personalization, and theoretically, they still can change the system sounds, colors, and mouse cursors. Oh, the hours we lost fussing with screen savers! See the desktop icon for “My Computer” in the screenshot above? It’s a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat. In those early days, when everything about personal computing was still a novelty, it was exciting to change not just your wallpaper but also the screen saver, system sounds, mouse cursors, and the icon for the Recycle Bin. Microsoft introduced the idea of a Windows “theme” in Windows 98. It might be worth it – Microsoft has released quite a few beautiful themes in the last few years. It will appear that a personal Microsoft account is required to download a theme, but those prompts can be bypassed with persistence.
(Links to the store are problematic.) (Click on Start and scroll down to Microsoft Store, then do a search in the Store for theme.) There is no way to search for a theme, and they’re not categorized (not even alphabetized), so the only way to find a theme is to browse through them. There is an overlapping but not identical selection of themes in the Microsoft Store, the store built into Windows 10 that you don’t use. They are indexed so you can easily browse through particular categories – animal photos, or panoramic photos that span dual monitors, for example. There is an aging but quite nice selection of themes that can be downloaded in a few seconds from this web page. I’ll tell you where to get the themes, and along the way, we’ll talk a little bit about the failure of the Microsoft Store.
A typical theme rotates through ten or fifteen photos when you get bored, it’s easy to switch to another theme with new pictures. Microsoft has gorgeous collections of photos that you can use for free as your Windows wallpaper.
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