How to change the desktop wallpaper on Windows 7/10

The following article I will show you how to change the background wallpaper on a Windows 7/10 computer.

Currently, the Windows operating system has two versions most used, Windows 7 and Windows 10, so I will only present in these two operating systems.

Each person will have different personalities, so changing the desktop wallpaper on Windows to suit their own preferences is an indispensable thing for computer users. And now I would like to show you how to change the image of your computer on Windows easily and quickly.

1. How to change the background wallpaper on Windows 7

Here are some of the most popular ways to change background wallpapers on Win7.

Change the background with the default image in Windows 7

Below I would like to share with you how to change the desktop wallpaper with the default image in Windows 7 as follows:

Step 1: On the Desktop, select an empty space, right-click and then select Personalize.

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Step 2: After clicking Personalize, a dialog box will appear below and then click to select the images you like.

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Change background with any image in Windows 7

To change your computer's wallpaper with any image in Windows 7, do the following:

Click on the image you want as wallpaper and then click set as desktop background.

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The setting automatically changes the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7

In order to automatically change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7, we need to perform the following steps:

Step 1: Prepare many beautiful images for your desktop wallpaper and then gather those images into a folder.

Step 2: Right-click on the Desktop and then select Personalize, similar to the way I presented in the step of changing the default wallpaper above. However, instead of clicking to select the available images on the computer, we click on Desktop Background instead.

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Step 3: After clicking on Desktop Background, the dialog box below appears.

Click Browse . to navigate to the path where you saved the image before,

In section Change picture every: select the number of minutes to convert from one image to another, here default is 30 Minutes.

After completing the customization, click Save changes to save the changes.

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Change the lock screen wallpaper (Look screen)

Although the lock screen change feature on Windows 7 has been hidden, I will introduce you to a manual method to set up the lock screen wallpaper change without affecting the functionality of the Windows.

The steps to change the lock screen wallpaper are as follows:

Step 1: First, click the Start button in the lower left corner of the desktop in the seach section, type Regedit => Enter or go to Run (Windows + R) and then type Regedit to open the Registry Editor dialog box as shown below. .

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Step 2: The Registry Editor dialog box appears, open the OEM Background File under the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurentVersionAuthenticationLogonUIBackground.

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Step 3: Then open the OEM Background file and change the Value value to 1 => OK.

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Step 4: After completing the above steps, we continue to Click the Start button, type Gpedit.msc or click Run (Windows + R) type Gpedit.msc => Enter, to open the Gpedit file as shown below.

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Step 5: Go to the following link to open the Alway use custom login background file.

Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesSystemLogon

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After opening the file Alway use custom login background will appear the dialog box below and then set to Enabled => OK.

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Step 6: Turn off all the tables above and then go to Computer and access the link below:

C: WindowsSystem32oobe

After entering the oobe folder, click New folder and name it info as shown below.

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Step 7: Next open the info folder and create a sub-folder and name it Backgrounds

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Step 8: Next you need to select a JPG image file with the size of about 640x480 Pixels, capacity below 240Kb, and name the image file Backgrounddefault.JPG and then Copy it to the Backgrounds folder as shown below.

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After completing the above steps, you should Restart the device to admire the newly set lock screen wallpaper.

2. Change the background wallpaper on Windows 10

Change the desktop wallpaper with the default image on Windows 10

Here I will guide you how to change your computer wallpaper with any image on Win 10

Step 1: Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize.

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Step 2: After the Personaliztation dialog box appears, in the Background section, select the image you want to change

If you don't like the wallpapers that Microsoft provides, you can click Browse to choose a more satisfying image as your wallpaper.

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Step 3: Click Save Change to save the new wallpaper.

So, just simple steps you can change wallpaper on Windows 10.

Change your desktop wallpaper with any image on Windows 10

In addition to using the default image to change the desktop wallpaper that I just shared above, below I will guide you how to use any image to change the desktop wallpaper on Windows 10, how to do it. shows as follows:

You choose an image any format (BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, DIB, or PNG), then right-click on that image and choose Set as desktop background.

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So, just a simple operation, you can change your desktop wallpaper with any image you like.

Change the lock screen wallpaper on Windows 10

So in addition to how to change the desktop wallpaper, there is also a way to change the lock screen (Lock Screen), so now I will guide you how to change the lock screen wallpaper on Windows 10 as follows.

Step 1: Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize => Lock Screen.

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Step 2: After the Personalize dialog box appears,

In the Background section, there will be 3 options for you, choose Windows spotlight (Use image provided by Microsoft), Picture (Your image as lock screen), and finally Slideshow (Use multiple images to lock screen), and in this section I will choose Picture.

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Step 3: After selecting Picture in "step 2", click Browse to select a picture as the lock screen.

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So this article I have instructed how to change the computer screen on Windows 7 and Windows 10 very quickly. Hope through this article will help you create a beautiful background wallpaper.

Marvin Fry

Update 12 April 2021