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 Windows isn't just making it look pretty. It's also making it work the way you want it to and making it easy to get to the programs and features you use most.

In this tutorial, we'll cover the following tasks to customize Windows for fun and to make it easier to use:

• Changing your desktop background
• Changing your other Windows colors
• Setting up your screen saver
• Making the screen easy to view
• Using or turning off sounds for Windows events
• Making the computer easier to use for people with visual, audio, or mobility accessibility needs
• Adjusting the mouse for your particular needs