Four example Windows 11 wallpapers

If you lot'd like to modify your desktop wallpaper in Windows xi to a unlike born background image, a solid color, or a custom picture, it'due south easy to do in Windows Settings. Here's how.

Getting Started

To modify your desktop background, you'll showtime need to open the Windows Settings app. Luckily, Microsoft left us a quick shortcut to employ: Right-click the desktop and select "Personalize" in the menu that appears.

Windows Settings will open to the "Personalization" category. In the main settings listing on the right side of the window, select "Background."

In Groundwork settings, locate the "Personalize Your Groundwork" option. In the driblet-downwardly menu abreast it, you tin select one of three options:

  • Picture: This lets you select an image or photograph (an image file) to utilize as a desktop wallpaper.
  • Solid: This lets you lot pick a solid color for your desktop.
  • Slideshow: This option allows you to select a binder of pictures to use as desktop backgrounds that change automatically over time.

In the "Personalize Your Background" drop-down menu, select "Picture," "Solid Color," or "Slideshow."

It'southward worth noting that the "Motion picture" option applies only to the current desktop that is active. If yous're using multiple desktops through the virtual desktops characteristic in Windows 11, you tin set up a different picture for each virtual desktop. In contrast, the "Solid" and "Slideshow" options use to all of your virtual desktops at in one case.

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Choosing a Picture as Your Desktop Background

If you choose "Picture" in the "Personalize Your Groundwork" bill of fare, yous have two main options. Y'all tin can either select from a group of "Recent Images" past clicking a thumbnail, or click "Browse Folders" and select an image yous'd like to use that is stored on your PC.

(In case you get lost while browsing for an image, Windows 11 stores its built-in wallpapers in C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper by default.)

With the "Picture" option, choose a recent image or browse for one.

Under the "Choose a fit for your desktop prototype" drop-downwards carte du jour, select the option that suits you best.

  • Fill: This stretches or compresses the paradigm to fit the width of your screen while keeping the proper aspect ratio.
  • Fit: This stretches or compresses the prototype to fit the height of your screen while keeping the proper aspect ratio.
  • Stretch: This stretches or compresses the prototype you select to fit inside the dimensions of the screen without preserving the image'due south original attribute ratio.
  • Tile: This repeats the image as a tile from left-to-right starting in the upper-left corner until it fills the entire desktop screen space.
  • Center: This displays the paradigm centered on your screen at its original size and attribute ratio.
  • Span: This option volition display an image across desktops on multiple monitors, spanning them.

Choosing a Solid Colour every bit Your Desktop Background

If y'all select "Solid Colour" in the "Personalize Your Background," you can either choose one of the pre-selected background colors from the grid of colored squares, or you tin can select a custom color by clicking "View Colors."

Retrieve that this "Solid Colour" option will apply to all of your virtual desktops at the same time.

Setting a Slideshow as Your Desktop Groundwork

If you select "Slideshow" in the "Personalize Your Background" drop-down carte, you'll see options that allow you scan for a binder that contains images you desire to cycle through over time. Afterward selecting the binder, you can set how often the picture changes with the "Change Motion picture Every" drop-down menu. You lot can as well shuffle the film order, disable slideshow on bombardment ability, and choose a fit using the Fill up, Fit, Stretch (then on) options described higher up.

Once you accept the desktop set how you lot similar information technology, close Settings, and your desktop wallpaper or background will stay that way until you change it again it Settings. Windows 11 includes lots of fun new wallpapers to explore, and so accept fun!

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