Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Make your own Theme for Windows 8


It's easy! Here's what you do: Find a set of pictures you like, and then resize them to fit your desktop's resolution, in my case 1680 by 1050 pixels. Number them all consecutively. Put them into a folder you name as DesktopBackground (that's all one big word) and then put that inside another folder which you have named for your new Theme, in this case Aircraft-01. Then, you're ready to put all that into Windows, so navigate to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and then just drag your new theme folder into that folder and drop it there. Now, open your new theme's folder, open the DesktopBackground folder inside it, select all of the images, and then right-click on them to get the drop-down showing "Set as desktop background" and click on that. Your new theme will be activated on that click.

Now close those windows, go back onto the desktop, right-click to get the little drop-down, and at the bottom of the list, click on Personalize. Then just as in Windows 7, you can save your theme (it's on the top left corner of the window) and also set your timing for the image changes. So have some fun, Folks!

 

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