Microsoft introduced the idea of a Windows “theme” in Windows 98. It might be worth it – Microsoft has released quite a few beautiful themes in the last few years.
It will appear that a personal Microsoft account is required to download a theme, but those prompts can be bypassed with persistence. (Links to the store are problematic.) (Click on Start and scroll down to Microsoft Store, then do a search in the Store for theme.) There is no way to search for a theme, and they’re not categorized (not even alphabetized), so the only way to find a theme is to browse through them. There is an overlapping but not identical selection of themes in the Microsoft Store, the store built into Windows 10 that you don’t use. They are indexed so you can easily browse through particular categories – animal photos, or panoramic photos that span dual monitors, for example. There is an aging but quite nice selection of themes that can be downloaded in a few seconds from this web page. I’ll tell you where to get the themes, and along the way, we’ll talk a little bit about the failure of the Microsoft Store.
A typical theme rotates through ten or fifteen photos when you get bored, it’s easy to switch to another theme with new pictures. Microsoft has gorgeous collections of photos that you can use for free as your Windows wallpaper.
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