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  2. Personalize your background image, sounds, and toolbar ...

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    1. Sign in to Desktop Gold. 2. Click the Settings button. 3. Click Personalization. 4. Click the Backgrounds tab. 5. Under the "Choose Library," select either On my PC or From pixabay. 6. Click an image to set it as your background.

  3. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. [10]: 3:37 [24] They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.

  4. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

  5. Susan Kare - Wikipedia

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    In 1987, she designed a "baroque" wallpaper, [9] numerous other icons, and design elements for Windows 3.0, [2] using isometric 3D and 16 dithered colors. [1] Many of her icons, such as those for Notepad and various Control Panels , remained essentially unchanged by Microsoft until Windows XP .

  6. Metro (design language) - Wikipedia

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    The Music+Video hub on Windows Phone. Microsoft Design Language (or MDL), [1] previously known as Metro, is a design language created by Microsoft.This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes.

  7. Aqua (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic of the window backgrounds changed from pin-striped to white backgrounds. Brushed-metal windows had a thick frame with a metallic texture or dark-gray background and sunken buttons and inner frames. They had the additional property of being draggable at every point of the frame instead of just the titlebar and toolbar.

  8. K Desktop Environment 3 - Wikipedia

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    The update added DBUS/HAL support to allow dynamic device icons to keep in sync with the state of all devices. Kicker was given an improved visual aesthetic, and the trash system was redesigned to be more flexible. The new desktop environment allows SVG to be used as wallpapers.

  9. File:Mandel zoom 00 mandelbrot set.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Desktop wallpaper icon: This English Wikipedia featured picture is fairly large and has an aspect ratio of approximately 4:3 or 5:4, making it suitable as a computer wallpaper. See the gallery of such images, or the gallery of widescreen images.