personalization

I understand the setup of a screen saver, Settings, Personalization, Lock screen, etc. But there is another option that I have used and I cannot find it now. I have searched all over. This is odd, Because I was just using that option this weekend and I know I dont have a 3rd party program. Now...

About a few months ago I think, I started to notice my three Win10 machines the background color of certain dialogs were now a very dark grey. It looks really weird and makes some things harder to see. I guess it happened after a certain update (who knows which one) and as my machines got that...

hi. just an FYI--MS was of absolutely no help here--no surprise there, though... i have personalized the lock/login screen with a picture from my computer. it always showed upon start/restart. all of a sudden--at first only from time to time, but recently, more frequently--a picture will come...

I just bought a new laptop with Win 10 Home on it and I want to make the logon password the same as the old one, which was "not" the Microsoft account password. When I set the new one up it only uses the Microsoft password and if I change it the Microsoft password also changes. How do I just...

Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online. The period that followed was one of dramatic change and reinvention, forcing news organizations to re-think their programming and business...

Not sure if I am posting in the correct forum but, here goes ... Does Microsoft have an area or, a page to get more Screensavers than the five standard ones that come with the OS? If it makes a difference, I am using Win10 Pro.

Windows 10 is all about letting you express yourself and create. Today, we’re going to show you some of the ways you can personalize your PC– whether it’s Link Removed, flowers or skylines, turning your taskbar pink, or enabling Windows Spotlight so beautiful photography will show up...

Dell keeps my computer running, but always has trouble reinstalling Lock Screen Pictures when they disappear from my computer

I wanted to set up another account in my Windows 7 PC for my daughter so she could have her own desktop , bookmarks and everything. I somehow ended up with all my stuff going under her user name. All my settings are now associated with her and I am on a new account! I don't know how to go...

Link Removed The Link Removed is a 3D creation app on Windows 10 that makes it easy to create anything in 3D, whether you draw from scratch or pull from our online 3D community, Remix 3D. Since the release of Paint 3D as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update earlier this year, we’ve been...

win 10 no changes done to pc all of a sudden tm pictures screen savor will not start it has been working ok till now there has been no changes to my ps. I go to settings peroneal settings themes and see the px in the prevue and the time to start is 8 min but it wont start.

Hello! I’m Dave Alles, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Maps team. Our team delivers the Windows Maps app and the underlying map platform available to developers on all Windows 10 devices. We continuously work to release app updates with new functionality and improve the map control...

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Generic (self built) PC I tend to reinstall Windows twice yearly for various reasons & always run into this issue so figured it time to see if there's a simpler solution than the one I'm using. Basically I love the slideshow option & have 3 or 4 folders with up to...

Using Personalization to set desktop backgrounds always defaults to CENTER for positioning. I want to use the FIT positioning but every time the background changes (mine does daily) or when some apps run, the system resets the background to Center which fails to fill the screen with the images...

When I get on our computer with Win 10 before I touch the keyboard there is now a nice photo there usually of some famous natural attraction . What is this ? I don't recall anything like it before . I tried to find out in windows program lists in "all programs" but no success . can I shut it...

Today’s Windows 10 tip is all enabling beautiful photography to show up automatically on your lock screen with Windows Spotlight images. Windows Spotlight updates daily with images that highlight beautiful scenery from around the globe. Images are also selected to depict a spirit of action...

Caesars Entertainment Corporation, a leader in the hospitality industry and one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers, is always looking for new ways to enhance the guest experience. Today’s customers have high expectations when it comes to personalized services and...

I have been having this issue for a couple weeks and it's really frustrating. I have an Acer 591G laptop that came with Windows 10 already installed, i.e. I didn't upgrade from a previous version. I can tell you that this issue only started happening a couple weeks ago, after I bought and...