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Solid Color is a palette of simple, solid colors for your desktop

background. It’s not a bad idea, actually; it’s a little easier to find
your icons if they’re not lost among the details of a nature photo
(or photos of your nieces and nephews).

Picture starts you off with five luscious nature photos. It also
offers you a Browse button that displays what’s in your Pictures
folder, because it’s more fun to use one of your own pictures on the

desktop. That might be your graduation photo, or it might be a still
from Frozen; the choice is yours.

Slideshow. The novelty of any desktop picture is likely to fade
after several months of all-day viewing. Fortunately, you can
choose multiple desktop pictures from the gallery. Use the Browse

button to find a promising-looking folder full of images.

Now, from the “Change picture every” drop-down menu, specify
when you want your background picture to change: every day,

every hour, every five minutes, or whatever. (If you’re really
having trouble staying awake at your PC, you can choose every
minute.)

Now, at the intervals you specified, your desktop picture changes
automatically, smoothly cross-fading among the pictures in your
chosen source folder like a slideshow. You may never want to open

another window, because you’d hate to block the view.

Turn on Shuffle if you’d like the order to be random, and “Allow
slideshow when on battery power” if you’re willing to sacrifice a

little juice for the gorgeousness.

Tip
Once your slideshow background is set up, you don’t have to wait out the waiting period if you
get bored. You can right-click the desktop and, from the shortcut menu, choose “Next desktop
background.”