The customization functions offered by the different applications we work with today are very useful to adapt these to our needs. This is something that becomes especially important when we refer to software of the power or importance of Windows, for example.
And of course, as most of you already know, any operating system is the base on which the rest of the applications and platforms are based in most cases. Well, how could it be otherwise, this is something that also reaches a system of the importance of Microsoft‘s proposal in this regard. What’s more, Windows is the most used operating system, by far, on desktops. Therefore, the firm itself is fully aware that it must, as far as possible, allow users to adapt it to their needs.
What are Windows themes and backgrounds for?
Hence precisely the customization functions that we referred to earlier. These allow us, both at a functional and aspect level, to adapt the program so that it works in the way we need it best. As we say, there are many integrated functions for this, but in these lines we want to focus on one of the most used.
Specifically, we are referring to the personalization function that almost all of us regularly use, the desktop background. If we consider that the Windows desktop is one of the elements that we use the most on a day-to-day basis, adapting the aspect of it can be very interesting. What’s more, for all this that we discussed we have an almost infinite amount of content, both from Microsoft itself, as well as from external sources.
In principle, in order to differentiate the themes of the backgrounds that we use in Windows, say that the first element is considered as a set of several of these backgrounds. Thus we achieve, in a programmed way, that these are changed periodically to our liking. In fact some more complete themes, in addition to backgrounds, include sounds and other personalization elements.
But of course, at the same time, when talking about the Redmond operating system, we must bear in mind that if we have an unactivated Windows 10 , these customization possibilities are significantly reduced. What’s more, we can say that the operating system itself does not allow you to customize almost almost nothing.
Change Windows wallpaper
First of all, we will tell you that in the event that we want to change the Windows desktop background once activated, although we have several methods, we usually do it from the same desktop. Therefore, for this we only have to click with the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop to bring up its context menu.
Thus, we can now choose the Personalize option, which will give us access to the corresponding window of the System Configuration application. Here we will have the opportunity to select the theme or background that we are going to use, its appearance, the time of change between images, etc.
Customize Windows 10 background without activating
But we can carry all this in the event that we have a properly activated Windows 10 with its corresponding password. Therefore, if we have an inactivated system, as we mentioned before, the possibilities in this regard are reduced. Thus, as you have probably already checked first hand, in this case, the software does not allow you to adapt the system to your needs.
This is something that at the same time includes the wallpaper that we are talking about, at least from the desktop itself as we have explained. In the event that we try to modify the desktop background as we have just shown you from the context menu, or the Settings application, we will see that these options are not available.
But yes, there are also other alternative options for all this that we can draw on. We tell you this because in the event that you have a Windows 10 without activating with its license, we are going to show you the way to do it and thus manage to avoid this blockage by Microsoft.
Change background from photo file
Well, as we told you, since Microsoft does not allow us, at least in these circumstances, to change that background image, we will look for other ways. One of them is through the photographic file itself that we want to establish as a desktop background. Therefore, to achieve this, the first thing we do is locate the file as such in its disk location.
Once we have it on the screen, for example from the same File Explorer, what we have to do is click with the right mouse button on the file. At that time we will only have to select the option called Set as desktop background so that we can already enjoy it as a background.
Set background from any web page
But that’s not all we can do to bypass this lock on Windows 10 without a password. Therefore, we can also change the desktop background that we have talked about, but looking for one that we like from our favorite Internet browser.
Thus, as in the case described above, once the photographic content has been located, right-click on the photo to select the menu option Set as desktop background. Therefore and as we have been able to verify, we can customize Windows 10 in this sense, even without having an activation key for it.
