If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

Creating custom wallpapers and screensavers used to mean either hiring a designer or spending hours wrestling with complicated software. Today, platforms built for one-click background creation have ...

Nothing is quite as impersonal and boring as the generic background already loaded on your computer. Whether it’s a drop of water or a landscape view of a place you’ve never been, it’s time to change ...

Ed. note: If you do extensive reading on a computer screen you know how quickly stark black-on-white text can strain your eyes. One Lifehacker reader, tired of straining his eyes, changed the default ...

When it comes to decorating your desktop with new wallpaper, you probably have some favorite sources already, and we hopefully our Wallpaper Wednesday series is one of them. Even so, there's always ...