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title: "How to change desktop background in windows OS"  
description: "In windows you can set your desktop digital pictures from your personal collection and windows default pictures."  
author: "Manoj Pandey"  
published: 2015-03-30  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1703/how-to-change-desktop-background-in-windows-os  
category: "desktop/laptop"  
tags: ["desktop troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to change desktop background in windows OS

##### *In windows you can set your desktop digital pictures from your personal*

##### *collection and windows default pictures.*

##### *\*· For use windows pictures in desktop background follow below steps-:

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1. Open Control Panel and choose Appearance and Personalization and select

##### Personalization

![How to change desktop background in windows OS](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5b050d2e-5651-488f-a816-2813095592a7/images/69c664ff-4833-4f0b-95ba-3bf2a7bf0c1a.png)

2. After press Personalization click in Desktop Background.

![How to change desktop background in windows OS](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5b050d2e-5651-488f-a816-2813095592a7/images/a59e109c-e623-44a6-8995-fd6471f30135.png)

3. [Now](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80750/even-google-maps-are-hacked-now) [choose](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87863/why-you-should-not-choose-wordpress-for-making-a-website) any images and Press Save Changes button. You can also Browse from your [image](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23551/an-investigate-distinctive-seafood-restaurant-for-your-image-stamp-character) [location](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2574/twitter-conveniently-reveals-a-location-sharing-policy-amid-elonjet-controversy) and choose image.

##### Now you can see your desktop background. Background is changed.

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· Short cut methods

1. Open your images with Windows Photo Viewer

![How to change desktop background in windows OS](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5b050d2e-5651-488f-a816-2813095592a7/images/d3d04b77-67bd-497c-a056-6de8b5b66605.png)\

2. Write click in images in background and select Set as desktop background

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![How to change desktop background in windows OS](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5b050d2e-5651-488f-a816-2813095592a7/images/e5d5835b-aa1a-431e-acb6-fadb47723485.png)

Now your [desktop](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31257/what-is-desktop-os) [background images](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/109606/how-to-show-off-background-images-on-bing) is changed.

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