385 questions with Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop tags
Locking taskbar?
I'm working in Windows 11. I can't remember how to lock the taskbar. Anyone know?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Windows Spotlight stuck on default wallpaper in Windows 11
Hi team, My Windows Spotlight lock screen is stuck on the default blue wallpaper and is not downloading or updating new daily images. System Details: OS: Windows 11 Troubleshooting already done: Switched background setting from 'Windows Spotlight' to…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
My printer wont scan to the computer
printer wont scan to computer it saying I dont have any connection
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
desktop display
On 9/30/26 I accepted the recommended updates from Microsoft. When finished I noted that my desktop no longer displayed a slideshow of my photos. The display screen in settings no longer offers me this option. Can I fix this, and how do I go about it.
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Retaining Wallpaper always
How do I get the wallpaper to remain the same on my desktop, even after turning the computer off and back on?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
how do i adjust my icon spacing on windows 11
I have not been able to use negative numbers in windows metrics for spacing pruposes
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Windows 11 background won't change to Windows Spotlight
In the Personalization setting when changing the option to windows Spotlight the 'Personalize your background' says "A picture background applies to your current desktop..." even though windows spotlight has been selected. I have done many…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
how do I change background color
Background color is now black. How do I change it to white?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
how to make windows 11 look like windows 7
What settings can I tweak to make Windows 11 give me a GUI interraction which replicates the Windows 7 GUI experience, without buying 3rd-party tools?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
How to restore my Explore Background
How to restore my Explore Background. This is a standard feature that no longer is showing. Next Background remains. [Tag moved from: Microsoft 365 and Office | Other]
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
I cannot select slideshow for my desktop
When I select personalize to change the desktop to a slideshow it reverts back to picture. I cannot select slideshow for my desktop.When I select personalize to change the desktop to a slideshow it reverts back to picture. I cannot select slideshow for…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
How to keep desktop icons from moving
How to keep desktop icons from moving after my screen logs out?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
i need to talk to a human
one drive as i lost a file that i need to retrieve
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Thumbnails not appearing on icons
I have tried everything, even re-installing in-place Windows 11 but i am unable to regain thumbnails on icons
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
My desktop picture changes occasionally. I love the pictures, but how can i tell where and what the picture is?
I just want to know what the picture on my desktop is. They are beautiful and I love them changing occasionally. It's not the picture you see before you login, but the desktop picture. Moved from: System Center Operations Manager
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Green Checks on Win 11 Desktop Icons
Suddenly, my Windows 11 desktop icons all have green check marks. Why? And how do I remove them?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
My icons don't show but application names do.
My desktop is showing my application names, but not my icons. I've looked at other threads, but none of them have proved useful. Strangely, Task Manager stopped working as well. Please help!
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Wallpaper keeps changing.
Recently I was changing my wallpaper and I changed my mind so I changed it back to the original Windows wallpaper and after a few seconds/minutes it keeps changing back to the one I tried but didn't like it, I've tried a lot of things and double checking…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Blinking Icons on desk top
I have noticed that over the last two days the icons on my Windows 11 desktop computer will blink or flash as if they are being refreshed (about every 30-40 seconds). This doesn't seem to have any affect the operations of the computer but it is an…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Desktop, Start, and personalization | Desktop
Problem: Desktop switching screen pops up every time I close any window.
How do I fix problem that when I close any window the Desktop Switching screen takes over. I only use one desktop and never use that feature but it is annoying to have the darn thing pop up every time I close any Window, like Outlook, or Edge, or…