The computer role-playing game dominated the PC in the 1990s, and pre-rendered backgrounds were a perfect way for developers of these epic adventures to create sprawling worlds to explore. But as ...

Reader Edwin wants to know how to change the themes in Windows 7. Specifically, he has multiple photos he wants to use for his desktop background, but can’t find a way to add more than one. If ...

Take a walk on the client side with Qt Jambi -- an alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces.

While Lively Wallpaper isn’t the only live wallpaper app for Windows, it’s the best free option I’ve found, and it has one especially neat trick: You can turn any website into a live desktop ...

I get bored with my desktop wallpaper pretty easily, especially in Ubuntu Linux, where it's nearly the only thing on my desktop. Until recently, that meant scouring theming sites for great artwork ...

Customizing Windows 7's start, log-on, and desktop backgrounds isn't as easy as it might be, but it's eminently doable. Deactivate the "Close Encounters" start-up animation ...

Setting animated backgrounds on Windows desktop used to be very simple earlier. With Windows 11/10, it is not so easy anymore – but it isn’t impossible.

I occasionally need to convert the background color of a particular image to be transparent so that the image looks better on medium with backgrounds of colors other than the image's original ...

Even if you don't love Bing's search, you probably appreciate its home page backgrounds. Now you can set those Bing images as your desktop wallpaper through an official theme, and keep it updated ...