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Changing Your Desktop Wallpaper is Easy!

29 Responses (Add) | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 2:33am

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Chances are, you have a picture on your monitor screen behind your icons. This is called your desktop, and the picture is your wallpaper. It’s exceedingly easy to change this picture, and I’m going to show you how.

Let’s say you’re surfing the Internet, and come across a picture that is funny or beautiful. You’d love to look at this picture all the time! Well, you can! Simply right click the picture in Windows, and choose “Set as Background”. Voila. That picture is now on your desktop. In Safari for OS X, right click the picture and choose “Use image as desktop picture”.

Oh, wait. You say you don’t have a right mouse button on your Mac? You don’t need one. Simply hold down the Ctrl key and click your mouse button. This does the same thing as a right click on a standard Windows mouse.

Some people may want to choose to use a picture already on their computer, and switch to it as their background. On Windows, you can right click on your desktop, choose Properties, and then click on the “Desktop” tab. You can now browse to any picture on your computer, and set it as your background. On a Mac, go to your System Preferences, and click on the Desktop and Screensaver button. From there, choose “Desktop”. You can now browse any of the pre-installed pictures from Apple to use, or browse to your own picture to set as the background.

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29 Comments

Planet Northern Voice

November 18th, 2007
at 9:25am

re ready for it or not! We spend a lot of time, money and effort decorating our homes. Regardless of which holiday you may celebrate… I want to know how you deck your desktop! I get almost all of mydesktop wallpaperfrom Flickr. Flickr is just amazing. There are now over 2 billion images there from people all over the world. Some of these images come from professionals, and many of them come from everyday users like you and me!

Windows Vista Torrent

November 7th, 2007
at 10:58pm

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John Buffam

November 7th, 2007
at 1:25pm

Thanks for the great tips for beginners. Im referring some older students, some over 70 to this type of tip. A lot of sites forget that there are still people who have just learned how to turn on the computer

RickyTomatoes

November 8th, 2007
at 4:23am

ZOMG ME 2!!!

NOW I R TEH LEET HAX0R!!11one

RickyTomatoes

November 8th, 2007
at 4:25am

I think you might have to upgrade your mousepad drivers if switching to the Mac.

RickyTomatoes

November 8th, 2007
at 4:26am

This video saved my marriage.

Thanks, Chris!

RickyTomatoes

November 8th, 2007
at 4:32am

CHRIS!

This video is too hard!

When are you going to post something easier, like how NOT to forget to breathe…

…

*faints*

RamonesChronie

November 8th, 2007
at 5:48am

It’s true.

newyorkfish

November 8th, 2007
at 7:02am

Agreed.

Chris was really out of character in that video!

nickjuly004

November 8th, 2007
at 7:35am

I already know how to do that, but at my shcool they blocked nearly all ways to change the wallpaper probably because they don’t want us to add a little personality while we’re using the computers, but I can still change it from Firefox. =D

geoisonfire

November 8th, 2007
at 9:43am

Chris, ppl who actual watch you videos are not newbie! Last least if they were newbies out there, they wouldn’t even know what youtube is!

adamgooday

November 8th, 2007
at 11:26am

amazing revolutionary discovery made!

Timothyv491

November 8th, 2007
at 5:00pm

*drools*

uhhhhhhhh………

Aukon07

November 8th, 2007
at 9:07pm

I change my wallpaper all the time. :O

AtomicCreep

November 8th, 2007
at 11:22pm

slow down professor :p

Coraxuss

November 9th, 2007
at 1:37am

Maybe they’re scared that someone might goatse the wallpaper with scat or shemale pics LOL.

andreewww

November 9th, 2007
at 9:01pm

This is way to eazsy

djsteen

November 9th, 2007
at 9:30pm

I’m so used to Control+Clicking on my Mac; I do it on my Windows computer. lol.

djsteen

November 9th, 2007
at 9:31pm

hahhaa!

MindflayerPL

November 10th, 2007
at 2:29am

Hey,
You could’ve mentioned some “external” tools for changing wallpapers as well. Even those most basic like Wallaper Changer Powertoy available for free for everyone using genuine Windows.