In Windows 8, you can use themes to help make your desktop more style. The theme can change the desktop background, window border color, sound and screen saver on your computer at the same time. You can switch the theme at any time as needed. You can also create custom themes and share them with friends and family.
What is a theme?
Themes are a combination of pictures, colors and sounds. Topics include:
The various parts of the theme
Desktop background. Provide a background image, color, or design for the window that is open on the desktop. The desktop background can be a single picture or a slide show. You can choose the desktop background image that comes with Windows, or you can use your own image.
Window border color. The color of the window border and the taskbar. The theme can contain a specific window border color, or you can automatically select a color based on the color in the desktop background image.
Sound. A collection of related sounds that are heard when an event occurs on the computer. An event may be an action you perform, such as logging in to your computer or possibly performing operations on your computer, such as letting you know when you receive a new email.
Screen saver. A moving picture or pattern displayed on the computer screen after a certain period of time without using the mouse or keyboard. The screen saver is disabled in the theme that comes with Windows, but you can enable and add a screen saver to the theme.
You can find all your themes in the "Personalization" in “Control Panel”. Click or click on any topic to apply it to your desktop.
Open “personalization" by swiping from the right edge of the screen to the middle, click "Search” (If you use the mouse, point to the top right corner of the screen, then move the pointer down, then Click "Search”), type “personalize" in the search box, and then click or click “Set" & "Personalize".
In the "Control Panel"> Personalization", there are four types of themes.
My theme. The theme you created, changed, saved, or downloaded. As soon as you make changes to the theme, these new settings appear here as an unsaved theme.
Windows default theme. You can use the Windows theme to personalize your computer. Most themes include a desktop background slide show.
The theme of the installation. A theme created by your computer manufacturer or other non-Microsoft provider.
High contrast theme. Make the items on the screen easier to see. High-contrast themes do not include automatic window border colors or desktop background slide shows.
In Windows 8, you can use themes to help make your desktop look better. The theme can change the desktop background, window border color, sound and screen saver on your computer at the same time. You can switch the theme at any time as needed. You can also create custom themes and share them with friends and family.
What is a theme?
Themes are a combination of pictures, colors and sounds. Topics include:
parts of the theme
desktop background. Provide a background image, color, or design for the window that is open on the desktop. The desktop background can be a single picture or a slide show. You can choose the desktop background image that comes with Windows, or you can use your own image.
Window border color. The color of the window border and the taskbar. The theme can contain a specific window border color, or you can automatically select a color based on the color in the desktop background image.
Sound. A collection of related sounds that are heard when an event occurs on the computer. An event may be an action you perform, such as logging in to your computer or possibly performing operations on your computer, such as letting you know when you receive a new email.
Screen saver. A moving picture or pattern displayed on the computer screen after a certain period of time without using the mouse or keyboard. The screen saver is disabled in the theme that comes with Windows, but you can enable and add a screen saver to the theme.
You can find all your themes in the "Personalization" in “Control Panel”. Click or click on any topic to apply it to your desktop.
Open “personalization" by swiping from the right edge of the screen to the middle, click "Search” (If you use the mouse, point to the top right corner of the screen, then move the pointer down, then Click "Search”), type “personalize" in the search box, and then click or click “Set" & "Personalize".
In the "Control Panel"> Personalization", there are four types of themes.
My theme. The theme you created, changed, saved, or downloaded. As soon as you make changes to the theme, these new settings appear here as an unsaved theme.
Windows default theme. You can use the Windows theme to personalize your computer. Most themes include a desktop background slide show.
The theme of the installation. A theme created by your computer manufacturer or other non-Microsoft provider.
High contrast theme. Make the items on the screen easier to see. High-contrast themes do not include automatic window border colors or desktop background slide shows.
Creating themes
You can't just use the themes that come with Windows, you can also create your own custom themes with your own images and screensavers, and choose the colors and sounds they come with. To start customizing, tap or click on any topic to apply it to your desktop. Then change each part of the theme until the desktop background, window border color, sound, and screen saver meet your requirements. All changes made will be saved as an unsaved theme under “My Topics".
Unsaved Topics
Steps to Create a Theme
Open
Personalization by: swiping from the right edge of the screen to the middle, click "Search” (if using Mouse, point to the top right corner of the screen, then move the pointer down, click “search”), type “personalize" in the search box, and then click or click “set"; and “Personalization”.
To change the desktop background, tap or click “desktop background'; browse to the image you want to use, select the checkbox for the image you want to include in the slideshow, and click or click “Save Change ”.
To change the color of the window border and the taskbar, click or click “window color” and do one of the following:
click or click"auto" to make Windows based on the desktop The color in the background image automatically selects the color, then click or click “Save Changes”.
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Click or click the color you want to use, then tap or click “Save Changes”.
Automatic"Window Color Options
To change the sound of your computer when an event occurs, click or click on the "sound", "sound scheme" Project & "OK”.
To add or change a screen saver, click the “screensaver" and “screensaver" items in the list, change any settings to suit your preferences, then click or click “OK”.
After you are satisfied with the display and sound of the new theme, save the theme so you can use it at any time.
Steps to save the theme
Open “personalization" by swiping from the right edge of the screen to the middle and clicking "Search" (If you use the mouse, point to the top right corner of the screen, then Move the pointer down, click “search”), type “personalize” in the search box, then click or click “set"> and "personalize".
Under My Topics, click or click an unsaved theme to apply it to your desktop.
Click or click “Save theme”.
Enter the name of the theme and click or click “Save”.
The new theme name will appear under “My Topics"
Shared themes
After saving the theme, you can share it with friends and family. To send your theme to someone else, you first need to save the theme in a shareable file format called a .themepack file.
Open “personalization" by swiping from the right edge of the screen to the middle, click "Search” (If you use the mouse, point to the top right corner of the screen, then move the pointer down, then Click "Search”), type “personalize" in the search box, and then click or click “Set" & "Personalize".
Click or click on your custom theme to apply it to your desktop.
Long press or right click on the topic, then tap or click “Save theme for sharing”.
Save themes
In the <;filename” box, enter the name of the topic, then click or click “Save”.
You can share topics using email, web or external drives.
Delete themes
If you no longer use the themes you have created or downloaded, you can remove them from your computer and save disk space. (You cannot delete a theme that comes with Windows.)
Click or click a different topic to apply it to your desktop. You cannot delete the theme you are using.
Long press or right click on the topic you want to delete, then tap or click “delete topic”.
Get more themes
You can find more themes in the personalization library on the Windows website to add to your collection.
Get detailed information about images
If you want to know the images contained in a particular theme, you can view detailed information about those images, including the title and location of the photo. (For some images, this information may not be available.)
Open “personalize" by: swipe in from the right edge of the screen to the middle, click "Search” (If you use the mouse, point to In the upper right corner of the screen, then move the pointer down, click “search”), type “personalize" in the search box, then click or click “set" &&quo;; personalize ”.
Click or click on a topic to apply it to your desktop, then click or click “desktop background”.
Long press or point to the picture to see details about it.
Note You cannot change the default font or font color for items in Windows, such as window title bars, menus, or tooltips. However, you can make all the text on the screen (and other items like icons) larger, or you can change the text size of a particular item without changing the size of any other items on the screen.