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"How to Personalize Your PC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Personalize Your PC\nTo get started, right-click on your desktop background and select Personalize.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Menu Options\nA Control Panel window will appear, giving you the ability to change your settings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Change the Background\n\nSelect Desktop Background to change your wallpaper. Your PC will already have some correctly sized images pre-loaded.\nYou can select more than one image by checking the box at the top-left of each pic. \nThen, use the drop-down menu below to set how often you'd like the image to change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Use Your Own Photos \n\nAlternatively, you can use your own images. \nSimply put the photos you want to use into a folder, and then select this folder after you've clicked the Browse option.\nAs before, you can use the drop-down menu below to set how often you'd like the images to change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Change the Colors\n\nYou can personalize your PC's color scheme to a tone you like.\nClick the Window Color option to pick a shade, then play around with the intensity, hue, saturation and brightness until you're happy with it.\nHit Save Changes and the color will change.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Customize Sounds\n\nYou can customize the sounds and alerts your PC makes. \nFrom the Sounds option, select an existing sound scheme from the drop-down menu, or change the sounds by individual program event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Change the Screen Saver\n\nThe Screen Saver option lets you choose from pre-loaded designs.\nUse the drop-down menu to see the available options as well as a preview.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Use Your Own Photos\n\nOr you can use your own images as a slideshow screensaver. \nTo set this up, select Photos from the drop-down menu, then click on Settings. \nHere you can browse for the folder of images you'd like to use, set the slideshow speed and set shuffle options.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Save Your Theme \n\nOnce you've completed the previous steps, save your theme. \nSimply click the blue Save Theme text in the window and give it a name.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Your New Theme\nNow, when you open the Personalize menu, you will see your saved theme.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Sharing Your Theme\nYou can share your theme with others. Simply right-click on it and select Save Theme For Sharing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Saving as .Themepack\nThis will give you the option to save it as a .themepack file, which you can then email to others.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Access More Themes\nIf you'd like to browse more options, Microsoft offers tons of free themes for download. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Change the Color of Your Folders \n\nYou don't have to opt for boring yellow folders. Customize them into any shade you'd like with some nifty freeware. \nFolder Colorizer is a quick download that changes the hue of your PC's folders. \nOnce downloaded and activated, simply right-click on the folder you'd like to personalize and select Colorize.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. Change Your Login Screen \n\nWe've shown you how to change your wallpaper, but you can also personalize what you see when the login and logoff screens appear.\nThe Windows 7 Logon Background Changer tool offers a range of beautiful imagery, or the ability to upload your own photo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16. Customize Your Media Player\n\nWindows Media Player's design is pretty dull. Thankfully, Microsoft offers a range of skins free to download. \nSelect from games, movies and techie themes for a design you admire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n17. Organize Your Desktop\n\nUse Fences to customize your desktop and hide icons, such as boring work files, when they are not in use.\nFences helps beautify your desktop by creating shaded areas, which become movable and sizable containers for your icons and fade in and out as you need them.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n18. Get a Desktop Dock \n\nWould you like an animated dock? Steal some Mac OS thunder with the free version of ObjectDock.\nYou can have all your favorite programs, quick launch and pinned taskbar items, a dynamic weather docklet and more, positioned and sized to suit your preferences. \nIf you want to take the customization even further, delve into ObjectDock's settings to select various mouse-over effects.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you spend a lot of time staring at your PC, why not change the appearance settings to something you find visually pleasing?\nWe can show you how to customize your Windows 7 computer's settings to change the background image, color scheme, sounds and screensaver to your personal preferences.  Then, we have five free tools that will help your customization process even further.\n\n\nSEE ALSO: 10 Skype Chat Tricks for Power Users\n\nTake a look through our simple walkthrough in the slideshow above. Let us know in the comments below how you make your PC personal.\nThumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, RusN"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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