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Either way, click on “ Themes and related settings“.Īs you can see, I have a custom theme (based on images automatically downloaded from Bing, but that’s a separate post!).

The newest versions of Windows 10 have Cortana and search split into two icons on the bottom left, but if you haven’t upgraded to this release yet, no worries, just use Cortana to do the exact same search. To start, go into Windows search and type in ‘ theme‘: Too many of those are actually malware and while it might be fun to have a tiny Christmas tree as your cursor, having the same little utility also share every word you type is pretty darn bad news. To start, a warning: Please don’t download third party apps that promise to apply a holiday theme or any other theme to your Windows computer. But there’s a secret archive of Windows Desktop Themes on the Microsoft site and that does have a lovely Christmas theme available for free download, but let’s work our way towards it… Windows also has themes in the Microsoft Store, though as we’ll see it’s a pretty weak collection and won’t cover your needs. I can appreciate that, with all the festive lights, the snow and the cozy mood of the season, there are lots of beautiful images available. In fact, if you just want to set a photo off your phone or camera as your one Desktop wallpaper, here’s a quick page just about that: Set a Favorite Photo As Your Windows Desktop Wallpaper.īut you want to get a theme associated with Christmas.

In all cases, though, it’s pretty straightforward to change it to something that has meaning to you, whether it’s your own photos or a theme associated with a favorite place, a hobby or just pretty images of some sort or other.

I see this with Windows, Mac and even Linux systems. It’s remarkable how many computers have the default desktop wallpaper image that’s included with the operating system.