Display Properties 1
If you right-click with your mouse on a clear area of your Desktop, then
select Properties from the resulting pop-up menu you'll
see something similar to this:
This is the Display Settings Dialogue Box.
This one is displaying the Bliss theme, the default colours
and desktop wallpaper of Windows XP.
On this page we'll deal with the choices provided by each tab.
You can play around with the settings on all the dialogue boxes on this page and you won't do any harm. If you don't like what you've done, well, just change it back again.
Nothing will be changed when you experiment with the dialogue boxes until you click on OK or Apply, or if you press the Enter key. If you wish to cancel any alterations you've made, just click the Cancel button.
Windows Themes
The first (default) tab shown above is Themes. By selecting different choices from the drop down menu, you can change the appearance of your desktop and your windows to suit your taste.
I'm not a fan of Bliss and its garish colours. I like a plain theme, as you can see from the following pictures, but using Display Settings Dialogue Box you can set things up to suit your own taste and many more more themes can be downloaded from the Internet.
Windows Desktop
The next tab, Desktop, allows you to choose a picture as background wallpaper
for your desktop from the Background selection,
or you can click on the Browse button and choose
a picture or favourite photo from your files, or you can choose none at
all.
If you choose None, you may select a custom background colour from the Color dropdown menu.
If you click on the Customize Desktop button you can choose which icons you want to appear on the desktop.
If you find a picture on the Internet that takes your fancy, right click on it, and you'll see something like this:
.Click Set as Background, and voila, the picture will become your wallpaper. The graphic must be sufficiently large to cover your screen without loss of picture quality. For most people this means a file of 2 or 3MB.
The screenshot above is from one of the many spectacular shots available
from NASA's Astronomy
Picture of the Day.
