If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

Windows look and feel have evolved. While it was all beautiful in Windows XP and Windows 7, Windows 10 offered more functionalities but not so much for the looks. Windows 11, on the contrary, mixes ...

Windows Photo Viewer is one of the most beautiful image viewers for Windows PCs. It is popular because of its simplicity and neat and clean UI. If you are using Windows 11/10, you can easily use ...

Now that you’ve installed Windows 10 and mastered the basics of Microsoft’s new operating system, you’re going to want to start digging deeper into some of the customization options available—like ...

Changing your background is the easiest way to customize your desktop experience in Windows 11 or Windows 10. You can use any image, really, whether it’s custom ...

Microsoft is reshaping how Windows 11 users personalize their PCs by adding a dedicated Themes department to the Microsoft Store. The post Microsoft makes theming your Windows 11 PC as easy as phones, ...

A couple months back I gave you some tips on how to customize Windows Media Center, my onetime favorite Microsoft media management system. I’ll be honest: I’ve been thinking seriously about cutting ...

Following are the color numbers for the 16 foreground and eight background colors in the PC's text mode. Foreground and background numbers are added together; for example, white text on a red ...

Blurry desktop wallpaper on a Windows 8 system may be an indication of a problem with the device's display settings. Desktop wallpaper can be detailed or visually impressive, so that if there are any ...

When it comes to customizing your desktop, OS X seemingly provides anything you could want—there are a number of Apple-provided images, there are connections to your user’s Pictures folder and iPhoto ...

Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista’s annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves.