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How to Change Your PC Computer's Boring Desktop Wallpaper

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Bring your boring PC desktop to life with a few mouse clicks.

Sooner or later, you may tire of the familiar and boring background on your computer desktop. You'll want to change it to something more colorful and interesting. Changing your desktop background is not only possible, it’s quite easy and can be accomplished with just a few mouse clicks. Round up the photo or image that you want to display on your PC desktop and learn how to brighten up your workspace with the perfect wallpaper.

Things You'll Need

  • Boring Computer Screen
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Instructions

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      Find a wallpaper site. Many websites offer free wallpaper backgrounds to spruce up your computer desktop. Sites such as Wallpaper.com, 1stWebDesigner.com and AllFreeBackgrounds.com offer hundreds of interesting wallpapers from which to choose. If you don’t like the offerings on these sites, a quick Google search for “free desktop wallpaper” will produce dozens of other free wallpaper sites to explore.

    • 2

      Decide on the wallpaper that you want to display on your desktop. This could require some looking around to find just the right photo or image that fits your personal taste and temperament.

    • 3

      Set the wallpaper. Right-click on the image and select "Set as Wallpaper" or "Set as Desktop Background" from the context menu, depending on which version of Windows is installed on your PC.

    • 4

      Minimize or close your active browser window to enjoy your new desktop wallpaper. You can change the wallpaper as often as you like by repeating this procedure.

Tips & Warnings

  • Change back and forth between your favorite wallpapers by changing the settings in the “Display” or “Display Preferences” section of the Windows Control Panel.

  • Never download any image, file or application from the Internet to your computer unless you trust the website from which you are downloading the content.

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Comments

  • Traqqer Jan 01, 2009
    believe it or not, there are still some people who don't know how to do this. Thanks for the reminder....someone will thank you for it!
  • Scarlett9284 Dec 07, 2008
    Nice tips!

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