Chapter 4. Personalizing Windows 7

Your favorite color is green, and you find pictures of a rainforest soothing. Your daughter likes pink. And purple. And some other colors you don't even know the names of. Your son is into video games, and what he likes is dark and scary. If you three share the same computer, good news! You can each have your own background pictures, windows colors, and sounds, with personalization.

Windows 7 looks great. When you start your computer, you're greeted with a colorful background and taskbar. One of the first things most people want to do when they start Windows is change how it looks. It looks nice out of the box, don't get us wrong, but there's so much more you'll want to do with it to make it really you. But personalizing ...

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