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WINDOWS 10 SETTINGS SUPERGUIDE

If there’s one section of Windows 10’s Settings app that could be considered “fun” it would have to be the Personalization section. This is where you get to make your PC yours by setting the background image, choosing a color scheme, and getting the lock screen to behave just the way you like it. Let’s take a look at Settings > Personalization as part of our Windows 10 settings superguide.

1. BACKGROUND

Ever since Windows 95 we’ve been using our desktop’s wallpaper to express a little bit of ourselves in this digital world. These days it’s a lot easier since we don’t have to worry about creating bitmap images, and can instead turn to commonly used .jpeg and .png formats.

Not a whole lot has changed for backgrounds since the ’90s other than the quality of the images going up. You

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