4. Making Windows Your Own

In This Chapter

Personalizing the Start Screen

Personalizing the Lock Screen

Personalizing the Desktop

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Short of playing games and keeping up with Twitter and Facebook, there probably is no greater distraction from real work than tweaking and adjusting all those preferences that make Windows your own. You wouldn’t be the first person to spend more time picking colors and pictures for your Windows background than actually working. Although this version of Windows may seem like it has fewer options you can use to personalize Windows than previous versions had, there certainly are enough new options in Windows 8.1 ...

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