The customization of an operating system of the size of Windows 10 is something that is the order of the day for most users. Whether deeper or superficial tasks of this type are carried out, in most cases they are very useful.
And here we are not only referring to the customizations that can be carried out in terms of the appearance of the operating system itself, but also the functional ones. Keep in mind that a good part of the functions and features that we can find in Windows 10 at the moment, we can adapt them to our needs. As is easy to think, this will not serve to adapt the behavior of the software , or at least part of it, to what we need.
So we can be more productive on a day-to-day basis with Microsoft software by being able to make it work as we really want. But at the same time, it sure helps us to work in a more productive way to be able to work in a more friendly or personal environment. For this, Microsoft also offers us a multitude of alternatives in this same sense. Specifically, we refer to the possibility of changing the appearance of the operating system itself for another more suitable to our tastes. Here we have several alternatives in this same sense, although we are going to focus on the one best known and used for years.
What are Windows 10 themes
Specifically, we refer to the themes and funds that we have been using for years in the Redmond operating system. Specifically with this we refer to those elements in the form of photographs that we normally find decorating the desktop background of our Windows system. It is true that, from the outset, Microsoft makes available to us a series of high definition images corresponding to these themes and backgrounds. These can be used and exchanged when we install Windows again.
But as we mentioned before and it could not be otherwise, the software allows us to change and customize all this. Therefore, in these same lines we are going to show you the fastest and most effective way to create your own theme for Windows 10. This is going to be made up of a multitude of wallpapers that we will program so that they are exchanged by themselves. To begin we will tell you that to modify all this that we are commenting on, we can do it from Settings / Personalization.
But before starting the customization of Windows in this sense, we will have to carry out a very important previous move. Let’s start from the basis that we are going to create a theme initially composed of a series of own funds that will be part of the desktop and will be exchanged.
Download and save the wallpapers
That is why, as is logical to think, first of all we will have to do with these funds that we want to make up the new Windows theme. To say that the most recommended is that they are images that at least have the same resolution as our default screen. This is something that we consult by clicking with the right mouse button on it and selecting Screen Configuration . In the window that appears, specifically in the Screen resolution section, we find the data that interests us here.
Thus, these images to which we refer can be our own photos that we have saved on the mobile, or on a USB memory. They can also be images of third parties that we liked, or even those that we have to download from the Internet. In fact, there are web portals specialized in downloading funds of this type for use in Windows, and many of them allow us to specify the resolution in which we need them. Be that as it may, the important thing here is, on the one hand, that they all be of a similar resolution, and not lower than the one we have by default on the screen, as we have seen.
Next, the best we can do is create a folder, for example called Backgrounds, in any disk location . In it we can copy all the image files that we have collected so far. These are the ones that will form the new theme that we are preparing to generate.
Create your own new theme for Windows 10
Well, the next thing will be to create the theme that we have been talking about, as such. To do this, as we mentioned before, the first thing we will do is go to the Configuration path seen before through the Win + I key combination. Once we are located in the Personalization section, taking a look at the left panel, we find the section called Background.
Well, this is where we will have to establish, in the field also called Fund, the Presentation option. This is because we are going to use multiple interchangeable images instead of just one. In the same way, from this same window, in Choose albums for the presentation, we have to create the created folder that contains the images we talked about before. Likewise, we additionally establish the time for each fund to be changed, as well as if we want their order to be random .
Save the new theme to your computer
Well, from that moment, the Windows desktop will change in the period of time that we have programmed, establishing the photos in the folder as backgrounds. But at the same time we recommend you save this topic in the operating system itself. This will help us to distinguish it from others that we download, from those that are already included, or from those we believe later.
Therefore, in this case we have to go to the Themes section that is located in the left part of the window where we are. This is where we find the themes that we already have in Windows , and we also see a Save theme button. It helps us to assign a name and store this element that we have just defined.
At this point it is also convenient to know that in addition to the wallpapers to use, here we can customize other parameters of the new theme created. Among these we find the default system sounds, the background color of its elements, or the mouse cursor to use.