Windows 10 offers an extensive list of features when it comes to personalisation. This edition of Windows offered by Microsoft is a complete overhaul from the previous ones. It comes with a completely redesigned user interface with much better themes and colour options.
These personalisation features include customising the taskbar and the start menu too. You can choose what appears on the lock screen, and also colour calibrate your monitor.
Windows has rolled out updates regularly to make things better and offer more features to the community. The Windows Personalisation features are enough to make your boring OS and user interface to look much better than most.
In this article, we will see where to find these features and also dive deep into every one of those.
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Where to find the Windows Personalization features?
Click on the Windows key on your keyboard or select the start menu and look for the Settings icon in the bottom left corner and open it.
Search for the Personalization tab and click on it.
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7 customisable Windows features
Background
This section does not have much to offer. It gives you options to change the desktop background to a picture of your choice, a solid colour, or a slideshow from the images you choose. It gives you different crop options to choose from for your wallpaper.
Colours
Colours is an interesting addition to make your user interface look colourful and moreover, the palette has a lot of options to choose. You can also use the entire colour wheel if you want a particular colour.
You can also choose from a light and a dark mode for all your Windows apps. The light mode will keep a white background theme, and the dark mode will host a black background theme. You can also toggle on transparency effects for your taskbar and more.
Lock screen
Lock screen was introduced with Windows 8, and it has undoubtedly come a long way since then. The Windows 10 lock screen is very minimalistic but at the same time has several features and can show a lot of information at a single glance. It also has support to use Cortana while on the lock screen.
You can use this menu to change your lock screen wallpaper and even choose to keep a slideshow. You can select a single app to show detailed status and seven apps to show quick status.
Themes
Themes is another interesting feature in Personalisation of Windows. You can choose your background, accent colour, default sounds, and your mouse cursor. There are various presets available from Windows.
Fonts
The Fonts menu lets you go through all the different fonts that are readily available on your PC. These do not apply system-wide and are only used to edit or delete/uninstall a specific font. You can also download more fonts from the Windows store and install them respectively.
When you click on any font, it provides you with the details of the font such as full name, file location, version, designed language, the designer company, the manufacturer and the copyright information.
Start
This menu offers all possible customisation options for the Start menu. It shows the most recently added apps, most used apps and also has the option to add more tiles to your Start menu, and much more.
Taskbar
This one is all about your taskbar. Windows 10 comes with excellent repositioning features for your taskbar, and you can also choose to hide or unhide your taskbar. You can control the taskbar even while using multiple displays.
The taskbar has a unique feature called ‘My People’ where you can always stay connected to the people you frequently contact, from the taskbar. You can choose up to 10 people to remain always connected. There are various notification settings available regarding My People.
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