Relatively simple ways to remove Windows 7's floating-color-balls start-screen animation, and supply your own background images for the operating system's log-on screen and desktop.

Not happy with Windows' stock backgrounds? Here's how to mix your favorite photos into a desktop theme.

While Microsoft opted for daisies in Windows 8 and an aurora in Windows Vista, the default Windows 10 wallpaper uses a Windows logo just like Windows 7 did. It’s not just any old logo, either.

Windows 7 has a new default wallpaper and logo After my normal flick through of technology websites this morning, I came across the news of another leaked post-RC build of Windows 7, build 7232.

Users who used a single-color background in Windows 7 sometimes had to wait longer to log in.

But if you do have Starter, and you're plagued by Microsoft's decision to lock in the default desktop background, here's a free and easy way to reclaim the ability to change the desktop wallpaper.

Windows 10 by default compresses JPEG images you set as desktop wallpapers, but you can use this guide to show images in their full, glorious quality.

My first laptop ran Windows 10, which users and critics really seemed to enjoy. It was pretty simple to use, it looked nice, and it had that eerie but calming blue window pane as its default ...

I never consciously said "surely this image is CGI," I simply blanked out the default Windows 10 desktop background the way I might do to an advertisement or garbage post on Reddit.

Windows 10 was a real return to form for Microsoft's ubiquitous line of operating systems following the confoundingly touchscreen-centric Windows 8, but I can't say I paid its default desktop ...

Windows has included a variety of wallpaper images for the desktop background from the beginning, but it is also possible to set a solid color that displays only the color selected from the color ...

People Are Just Realising How That Windows 10 Desktop Background Was Made, And I Can Never See It The Same Again It's actually quite impressive.