[Tutorial] How to change your Desktop background image in Windows 10

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One of the first thing you might want to do with Windows 10 is to change the desktop picture, which tends to be quite awful by default. To do that, click with your right mouse button anywhere on the desktop, except the taskbar at the bottom, or an icon. You'll then see the following menu:

Select Personalize from the list and you'll see a screen appear like this one:

Make sure Background is selected on the left hand side.

The Background dropdown menu is showing "Solid Colour" for us. If you like a solid colour for your desktop background, select one of the available colours. If you prefer to have an image, click the dropdown to some choices:

The choices are Picture, Solid Colour, and Slideshow. If you select Picture, you'll see some images and options appear underneath the dropdown box:

If your picture is not big enough for your screen, click the dropdown beneath Choose a fit:

To select your own pictures, click on the Browse button, the one just above Chose a fit. You'll see an open file dialogue box appear. This one:

These types of screen are call dialogue boxes. You'll see a similar dialogue box when you want to save some work. The idea is that you place individual pieces of work (files) inside of folders. The area on your left is for navigating your own computer, and whatever storage devices you have attached to your computer.

The area on the left is really a list of folders. Under the Quick Access heading, you'll see folders for: Desktop, Downloads, Documents, and Pictures. Click on the Pictures folder to see if you have any suitable background images there. If you're not sure where you saved your pictures or files to, try the Documents folder first, as this is the default location when you save things. If you have download images from the internet, then try the Downloads folder.

The Camera and Photos items on the list (at the bottom, in the image above) are interesting ones. If you plug your camera or phone into your computer with a USB cable, and then click the Camera icon, you will be able to view all the images on your camera or phone. You can then use one of these for your desktop background. The Photos item lets you select folders on your computer where you have saved images to. You can then access them all from one location by clicking the Photos icon.

Once you have found a suitable image, click the Choose Picture button at the bottom right of the dialogue box. You'll then see your desktop background change.