


Alternatively, you can find the right applet in the Control Panel-if you're in the category view, under "Appearance and Personalization" click "Change the theme," or if you're in one of the icon Views, just choose "Personalization". Right click the desktop and click Personalize, or type "change theme" into the Start Menu and hit enter.

To change themes, you'll need to get to the Personalization window. In this guide, we're going to show you how to unlock themes that are already on your computer, remove themes that you've added, and get more themes online. Windows 7 comes with a handful of themes, but it also lets you get more. Themes have been a part of Windows since at least Windows 95, and they're still with us in Windows 7 in the form of a single file that packages together one or more desktop backgrounds, a screen saver, a window border color, a sound scheme, desktop icons, and mouse pointers.
