Windows 95 - Customizing Your Desktop

CUSTOMIZING YOUR DESKTOP
START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL
	The Control Panel allows you to customize your desktop with the DISPLAY icon, to change your mouse with the MOUSE icon, or to set a password so noone can get to Windows 95 without knowing your password on your machine.
MOUSE	Start with the MOUSE icon. This setting is to change a mouse orientation from Right to Left handed. It also controls the double-click speed. There is even a place to try out your double-click ability on the jack-in-the-box. Double-click, he pops up, double-click again, he going back in the box. Do you like pointer trails? Change to the tab at the top of the Mouse control for MOTION, and turn on Pointer trails, or turn it off. Select OK to exit the mouse controls and get back to Control Panel. You can really mess with someone's mind by changing the mouse from right to left handed, and turn on mouse pointer trails. But don't do it unless you want to be paid back.
DISPLAY	Choose DISPLAY to change the look of your desktop. The four tabs at the top control different areas of the display screen.
	BACKGROUND allows you to place a pattern on the desktop. If you select one, choose APPLY to see what it will look like. You can also select another and reapply. Wallpaper covers the normal desktop and any pattern you have selected. This is where you can be creative. If you have a scanned image, save it as a .BMP file format, place it in your C:\WINDOWS directory, and it will show up in the Wallpaper list.
	SCREENSAVER will come up after the keyboard or mouse has not been active for a specified period of time. Several different screensavers are available, and plenty can be purchased in addition to those provided by Windows 95. Also the screensavers can be formatted individually for your own taste. For example, in the Lines and Curves, you can format the number of lines, the number of curves, and the colors being used. In the Marquee, you can change the text, the font, the size, and the colors.
	APPEARANCE lets you set the color scheme you would like to use. It ranges from shades of blue, to rose, or the Windows standard colors, with font sizes of standard, large, or extra large.
	SETTINGS is preset by the monitor when it is installed. You probably don't need to change anything here, unless you are having problems adjusting the size of text. There , changing to 640x480 pixels gives you better control when you change the appearance to a large or extra large font, but you lose some finer drawing details by moving to the lowest setting.