Microsoft’s operating system includes a very handy option that automatically changes the wallpaper displayed on your PC’s desktop during the day.
How to change PC wallpaper? If the procedure for the most experienced users seems logical and has no secrets for them, for laymen unaccustomed to playing with Windows settings, the manipulation may seem out of reach.
However, changing the image that appears in the background of the Windows desktop is not insurmountable. Microsoft also offers several options for customizing your computer’s wallpaper. You can indeed change it to another unique image, or adopt one of the other options offered by Microsoft. The first allows you to configure a folder containing several images of your choice which will then be displayed in turn in the background of the Windows desktop.
The second, Featured Windows, leaves its luck to chance, or rather to Bing, the search engine of the Redmond firm. Formerly offered only on the login screen, it is now officially available in Windows 11 with 22H2 update, available now in the Release Preview channel for members of the Insider program. Thanks to this function, the wallpaper of your PC is changed randomly at regular intervals, without you having to do anything.
1. Open Settings
Start by opening Windows 11 Settings. To do this, click on the menu To start up then on Settingsor directly use the keyboard shortcut Windows + i.
Then go to the section Personalizationthen enter the menu Background.
2. Change the background to a single image
If you want to change the wallpaper for a particular image, click on the button Browse photos.
Navigate through the directories of your PC to select the image to use as your Windows desktop wallpaper and click on Choose a picture. Your photo is then automatically applied as wallpaper on your PC.
3. Set up a slideshow of your personal photos
Would you like the Windows desktop to display photos of your loved ones in turn? It’s entirely possible. To do this, on the line Customize your backgroundclick the drop-down menu, and change the option Image pour Slideshow.
Then click on Browsethen in the window of theFile Explorernavigate through the folders on your PC to select the directory containing the photos you want to use as wallpaper and click on Choose this folder.
Then choose your slideshow preferences. You can thus modify the periodicity of the wallpaper change (30 minutes by default), to lengthen it (one day, every 6 hours, every hour, etc.). You can also choose to display images in random order, or whether or not to run the wallpaper slideshow when your computer is running on battery power.
4. Set up a slideshow of random wallpapers
Last possibility offered to customize the Windows wallpaper, use the function Featured Windows from Microsoft. This option is responsible for searching online, directly on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, for new wallpapers that it configures on your PC.
To activate it, click on the drop-down menu at the line Customize your background and select Featured Windows. A new image should automatically apply as the wallpaper.
In addition, a new camera icon has appeared on the Windows desktop. Title Learn more about this pictureit allows, when you click on it, to obtain additional information on the image displayed in the background.
Then right-click on this icon.
You can decide to go directly to the next image, or even indicate if you like the image so that Microsoft does not offer it again if this is not the case.