
Hmm… doesn’t look too blue on the screen. You can see that my grey is actually known as “Sky”. What we want is at the bottom of that window. Right-click on the background photo and a menu pops up:Īs I’ve highlighted, click on “Personalize” and you’ll see a lot of different choices, including a choice of background images. Not horrible, but still a rather dull and pedestrian grey, completely opaque. There are a lot of different ways to get to the Windows “theme” and color configuration area, but I’ll take my usual shortcut, right-clicking on the desktop itself.īefore we start, however, here’s a little peek at my taskbar in its usual color scheme: Yes, you could hire an interior decorator to redo your computer desktop, though we don’t necessarily recommend it. On a Mac you’re stuck with grey and brushed metal (depending on the app) but in Win7 you can tweak it to your hearts content, even picking very specific colors for your windows and task bar that match your room or a favorite desktop image. In fact, don’t tell all those Mac fanboys but Windows 7 is far more configurable than the Mac operating system.
