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Make your Windows 7 desktop your own by customizing the desktop background (aka, wallpaper) and the screen saver. Windows 7 even lets you choose multiple background images that change throughout your day.
Andy Rathbone's computer books, which include Windows? 2000 Professional For Dummies? and Upgrading and Fixing PCs For Dummies?, have sold more than 11 million copies.
