Here's an example of customizing the desktop in Windows 7 - which is something we couldn't do in previous operating systems, and is another nice surprise built into Windows 7.Instead of using one of the pre-selected sets of "comes-with-the-program" backgrounds for your desktop, you can choose your own from your own collection of photos, or, as above, make up a set of plain backgrounds which will be displayed on the desktop according to how you have set the time for changes, on the drop-down list, and whether or not you have the box marked 'Shuffle' checked or unchecked. When 'Shuffle' is checked, you get a random selection of the set of backgrounds, but if you uncheck it, then the backgrounds are displayed in the order in which they are numbered in your set of backgrounds. (You did number them, didn't you?) That brings me to the obvious - to make them display in a certain order, just make sure you have numbered them consecutively.
This desktop background system in Windows 7 gives the user a lot more input and control over the desktop than we ever had before, and it is nice to have a changing background for it, instead of the same old one until you put up a fresh one. This system can do all that automatically for you, if you just input the right stuff for it. It's like a slideshow in slow motion, or if you insist, you can set it for only one background instead of several different ones.
There are a lot of nice touches like this built into Windows 7, and discovering them is fun.
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