Personalizing Windows 7

First of all, the personalization of Windows 7 implies change the skin theme. The theme in this operating system includes:

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  desktop background;
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  color of the window;
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  a set of system sounds;
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  screen saver.

Personalization of Windows 7 is noteworthy in thatThe background quality of the desktop allows you to set more than one drawing, but several; these pictures will change as in a slideshow, with a periodicity of several seconds, minutes or hours.

To change or customize the theme in Windows 7, you need to go to the Control Panel (Start - Panelmanagement), select the section Appearance and personalization, and in it - the section Personalization. Or you can just right-click on any empty space on the desktop and select Personalization. In the window that opens, you can select any topic from the suggestions. To install it, just click on the topic once and close the window.

If you do not have a set of proposed schemes, you can download the theme from the official Microsoft website. To do this, click on this link, select the theme you liked, click on the Download link under the topic, and select the Open function in the window that opens.

But the personalization of Windows 7 is not limited to a simple choice of topic. You can modify the main theme elements (for example, desktop wallpaper) toyour desire. At the bottom of the Personalization window, you can see a list of items in the topic. Click on the Desktop Background icon. A new window opens, in which you can select:

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  image or folder with images that will serve as the desktop background;
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  position of the image on the desktop;
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  frequency of the image change (if there are several backgrounds of the desktop).

As image sources You can select a folder from the drop-down liststandard desktop backgrounds Windows, an image library, the most popular photos or any folder on your computer (using the Browse button). Minimalists can choose to fill in a solid color. If you want the individual images not to be used as a background, just uncheck them. You can also use the Select All and Clear All buttons.

Possible image positions several: Filling, Fit, Stretch, Tile and Center. They are selected from the drop-down list at the bottom. Time to change the image too, is selected from the list in the range of tenseconds to 24 hours. If you want the images to be changed randomly, put a tick in the corresponding checkbox. When you're finished adjusting the wallpaper, click the Save Changes button.

Also personalizing Windows 7 allows Change the color of the borders of program windows, the taskbar and the Start menu. The color of the window can be selected in the range from sky-blue to chocolate, in total 16 colors are offered. You can turn on and off the opacity of the border of the window, change the intensity, hue, saturation and brightness of the color (the last three parameters appear when you click the Show color settings button). Do not forget to press the Save Changes button.

Also personalizing Windows 7 allows change the sound scheme of the theme and screen saver. The sound scheme can be selected from the listproposed (by the way, the system sounds in Windows 7 are quite melodic) or create yourself, choosing from the list each sound. The screensaver can also be selected from the standard list, set the parameters of the screen saver (if any, the time the screen saver appears after the computer has started to be inactive.

When you change the theme settings, it appears at the very top of the Personalization window, in the My Topics category under the name Unsaved theme. To save her, right-click on it, select the option Save theme, enter the name of the theme and click on the Save button.

As you can see, personalization of Windows 7 allowsit is flexible enough to customize the appearance of the system, because in addition to the described options, there is also the possibility of changing the desktop icons and the appearance of the mouse cursor. But it should be noted that all these features are fully implemented in the versions of Windows 7 starting with Windows 7 Home Premium and above. Personalization of Windows 7 Starter to users is not available, and in Windows 7 Home Basic initially only the basic theme of registration is present.