To personalize your machine.  SHOULD NOT BE DONE BY STUDENTS!

If you have downloaded wallpaper from the Internet, it will NOT be a part of your roaming profile.  In other words, it will ONLY be on the machine to which it was downloaded.

Step 1:  Click on Start.
Step 2:  Click on Settings.
Step 3:  Click on Control Panel.
Step 4:  Double click on Display.
Step 5:  Click on the tab labeled Background.
Step 6:  You have two choices at this point - Pattern or Wallpaper.

Wallpaper:

Step 7:  Using your scroll bar or arrow keys find the wallpaper that you are interested in seeing.  Click on the name of the wallpaper and it will display on the monitor in the dialog box.  If you don’t like that wallpaper, choose another one until you find the one that you want to use.
Step 8:  Once you have chosen your wallpaper, click on Apply.  Also in the wallpaper box, you have the choice of making your wallpaper tiled or centered.  Tiled means that it will cover the whole screen and centered means that you get one piece of the wallpaper in the center of your screen.  Click in the circle that you want your wallpaper to look like.

 Note:  Some of the wallpapers will not center.

Step 9:  Click on Apply.  Your background should now be changed to what you picked.
Step 10:  Click on OK. 
Step 11:  Click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the Control Panel dialog box to get back to Windows.

Patterns:

Step 7:  Change the wallpaper to (None).
Step 8:  Using your scroll bar or arrow keys find the pattern that you are interested in seeing.  Click on the name of the pattern and it will display on the monitor in the dialog box.  If you don’t like that pattern, choose another one until you find the one that you want to use.
Step 9:  Once you have chosen your pattern, click on Apply.
Step 10:  Click on OK. 
Step 11:  Click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the Control Panel dialog box to get back to Windows.