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JOHNS BACKGROUND SWITCHER FREE WINDOWS 10
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Windows will set it as your default on all desktops. Right-click the wallpaper icons and choose which monitor you want to use each on.

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When to Use This Trick (and When to Use Third Party Tools) Update: Since Windows 10 has added an easy, effective way to change your desktop wallpaper, as we outlined above, it isn’t necessary to use either of the following methods to change your desktop wallpaper. You still can use the “Imperfect Method” if you want to, though.įirst and foremost, we want to make the best use of your time - both in reading this tutorial and down the road when you’re using our advice to mix up your wallpapers. With that in mind, consider the following two scenarios. Scenario one: You infrequently change your desktop wallpaper, but you would really like to have a different background on each monitor. In this scenario, the solution in this article (which is quick and uses Windows’ built-in setting) is a perfect one as it’s light on system resources. Scenario two: if you want to use multiple and different wallpapers on each of your monitors, and you want a high degree of control over that, then the standard wallpaper options in Windows 10 probably won’t cut it.

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If you’re a wallpaper junkie or really need fine-tooth control over the backgrounds, then we strongly recommend the venerable (and still quite useful) John’s Background Switcher (free) or the Swiss Army Knife of multimonitor management, DisplayFusion (the features relevant to wallpaper management are available in the free version).

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RELATED: How to Change the Login Screen Background on Windows 10 How to Select Unique Wallpapers for Different Monitors in Windows 10 (And if you’re in a customize-all-the-things mood, be sure to check out how to customize your Windows 10 login and lock screen, too.) If you find yourself in scenario one, though, let’s take a look at how to set a custom wallpaper on each monitor in Windows 10. There are two ways two go about selecting multiple monitor wallpapers in Windows 10–neither particularly intuitive. For each method, we’ll use a handful of Game of Thrones wallpapers to demonstrate. For frame of reference, here’s what our current desktop looks like, with the default Windows 10 wallpaper repeated on each of our three monitors. It’s nice wallpaper, as far as stock wallpaper goes, but a tad boring. In the right-click context menu, select “Set as desktop background”. Windows will set those images as your desktop wallpapers. Below, you can see that the image we clicked on (the red wallpaper with the House Lannister crest) is on the center monitor. The two other wallpapers, for House Stark and House Baratheon, are more or less randomly placed on the secondary and tertiary monitor. This is a particularly inelegant solution because you have no control over where the images on the non-primary monitors will be placed. It also has two other irritating shortcomings: if the images are not the exact resolution of your monitor, they won’t work, and they will randomly rotate positions every 30 minutes. With those shortcomings in mind, know that we’ve shown you this method entirely in the name of thoroughness and education and not because we think you’ll prefer it. The Complicated but Powerful Method: Change Your Wallpaper With the Personalization Menu Update: The command here no longer brings up the traditional Control Panel interface, but you can now use the Settings > Personalization > Background window to accomplish the same thing.

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When Windows 8 came out, one of the first things multi-monitor users noticed is that there were a bunch of new menu options, including a very easy-to-use multi-monitor wallpaper selection tool built right into the Personalizations menu in the Control Panel. Inexplicably, that option vanished in Windows 10. If we click on the “Browse” button, we can browse to the folder with our Game of Thrones wallpapers (or we can use the dropdown menu to navigate to existing wallpaper locations like the Windows Pictures library). Once you’ve loaded the directory you wish to work with, here’s where you’ll finally get the per-monitor control you’ve been looking for.

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