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Questions tagged [desktop-customization]

Tweaking the look and feel of the operating system's desktop. All OSes welcome.

This tag marks questions about how to adjust the appearance or functionality of the graphical desktop provided by your operating system. Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, and many other operating systems provide a desktop as the primary user-interface shell, so personalization can significantly improve productivity.

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How do I get different background images on my dual monitors?

Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7? By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without installing extra software.
balint
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Make any windowed application 'Always On Top' without keyboard shortcut?

I've checked the previous question here, but unfortunately: DeskPin mostly doesn't work since Windows 8, and it still doesn't work in Windows 10 PowerMenu hasn't been updated since 2002, and does not seem to work in Windows 10 AutoHotKey and…
Nur
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Windows 10 icons appearance changed

A cat slept on the keyboard and all my desktop icons are now looking like in the picture : Three lines of text description to the right of the image. How can I fix it to see the normal behavior ( one line below the picture) ? Edit: Ctrl + Mouse…
Evgeniy Mishustin
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What is the location of lock screen images on Windows 10?

Where, or what format, are the images used by Windows 10 when logged out or in lock-screen? I searched the entire drive for *.jpg, *.bmp, *.png, and *.tif but the one I was looking for did not appear. At first glance, Path to current desktop…
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How do I change the wallpaper of Windows 7 Starter Edition?

Is there a way to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition? I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no "Customize" option in the control panel. Microsoft obviously wants to keep the netbook users rather…
V. Schreiber
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How can I set the live video feed from the ISS as my desktop background?

NASA have recently started doing a live broadcast of the view from the ISS (if it's black, the ISS is over the night side of the Earth). http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ How can I set this broadcast (or better, somehow obtain a periodic screen-cap of…
Moriarty
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Set one background to stretch across multi-monitor display?

I have two monitors and my coworker has three. We were wondering if there was a way to set a single background image to stretch across all the monitors. Right now it's the same image but repeated, so it looks like the same image three times in a…
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What's the source of those daily changing locked screen wallpapers on Windows 10?

I have these automatically changing wallpapers active on my work laptop (not activated by me) and I think the vast majority is at least high quality, some are brilliant and a few I just adore. What is the source of these images? I'd definitely like…
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Where does Windows store its current wallpaper?

I created an image for a desktop wallpaper and set the image directly in Windows (not from a browser). However, the image file I made is no longer on my computer, but the wallpaper is still there. How can I retrieve this wallpaper? It has to load…
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Is it possible to turn visible the invisible window's borders of Windows 10?

SCENARIO This is a brief introduction for those who don't know the next information: The new Windows 10's flat window style uses a different window-border mechanism than previous Windows versions, which affects in a horrible way the window aspect,…
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How do I reduce the size of the titlebar and window border padding on Windows 8, 10 or 11?

I think the size of the titlebars and the titlebar text are too large in Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10. Also, the window border padding cannot be adjusted like it could in Vista and Windows 7, as the dialogue box to do this has been removed. Is there…
paradroid
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How do I set the desktop background on Windows from a script?

On X Windows I had a cool 'silent-alarm" reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a way to do this for Windows XP? I'm thinking some kind…
David Leonard
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How to set the Windows 11 taskbar vertical?

My Windows 10 install just upgraded to Windows 11. I have had my taskbar positioned vertically since (I believe) Windows 95. I prefer this, as I can see every document grouped by the app. How do I set my taskbar vertically in Windows 11?
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How do I set my wallpaper to a web page on Mac OS X

I'd like to be able to have very ambient and persistent access to a web page. One idea would be to set the web page as my wallpaper. On Windows this would be easy enough, by setting an Active Desktop, but how would you go about it on a Mac. If it…
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How do I make the alt-tab previews smaller in Windows 10?

When I do an Alt-Tab, I get a preview of all the programs I have open. I like this, but I would like the preview windows to be a bit smaller. At the moment I can only fit 5 preview windows in a single line under alt-tab, once I add a sixth it splits…
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