To use the custom theme, they will just need to double click on the theme pack file.īy this time you have probably figured out that you can easily create a customized Background Slide Show. Give it a name and it will be stored in My Documents folder, then you can share it with your family via Homegroup or email the file to them. Right-click on the theme you want to share and select Save theme for sharing. You can also share your custom themes with friends, family, and co-workers. Then the images in that folder will be displayed and you can use them for backgrounds. You can use your own pictures…click on the Browse button then navigate to the directory where your pictures are located. So now you’ve played around with the default pictures and themes but you want to make your own and customize it up a bit. Click the Picture location drop down menu to explore different categories. There are several different default pictures to choose from. You can go through all of the pictures and select the ones you want in different categories like something in Characters for example. You don’t have to use the pictures for the specific Themes either. In this example one of the Landscapes pictures is unselected, it will change every 10 minutes, and are set to shuffle. Here you can decide which background pictures are shown, how often they change, and the picture position. You can adjust time intervals by going into Personalization and clicking on Desktop Background, which will be set to Slide Show by default. The Background will change images periodically.

Windows 7 default theme