Windows 11 basics: how to personalize your wallpaper and lock screen

Windows 11 basics: how to personalize your wallpaper and lock screen

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

If you’ve just bought a new laptop, one of the first things you’re probably going to want to do is personalize how it looks. Windows has plenty of options for customizing what you see when you open up your device. You can not only select a color, photo, or slideshow for your wallpaper, but you can choose a lock screen and pick a theme.

It’s simple and straightforward to do once you access your personalization settings. To do that:

Click on the Start button
Click on Settings

Select Personalization in the left-hand menu

From here, you can make a variety of design changes to the interface of your PC.

Change your wallpaper

Click on the Background bar

You can personalize your background in a variety of ways.

At the…

Continue reading…