Windows 10: Change Mail and Calendar app Background Picture in Windows 10

How to: Change Mail and Calendar app Background Picture in Windows 10

How to Change Background Picture of Mail and Calendar app in Windows 10


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

The Mail and Calendar app has a customizable background picture that displays in the preview pane when a message is not selected to view.

This tutorial will show you how to change the background picture of your Mail and Calendar app to any image you like in Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: Default Background Picture in Mail app






Here's How:

1. Open the Mail or Calendar app.

2. Click/tap on the Settings button at the bottom of the left pane, and click/tap on Personalization in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)



3. Turn on or off to Fill entire window with your background picture. (see screenshot below)

*note If turned on, the left pane will have the background image included in it.

If turned off, the left pane will have the selected color as its background instead.






4. Do step 5 or step 6 below for how you would like to select the background picture.

5. Select one of the recent eight images to use, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note The first box is to use a solid color as your background. It will use a faded version of the color your select at the top.



6. Click/tap on the Browse button. (see screenshot below)




A) Browse to and select a .bmp, .png, .jpg, or .jpeg file you want as the background picture, click/tap on Open, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. The background picture will now be changed to the image you selected.


That's it,
Shawn


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Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Mail & Calendar app on Windows 10

If there are no error messages, check on the article below, and follow the suggested troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue:

• Resolve sync issues in Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10

Let us know if the issue persists.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

Store Cache - Clear in Windows 8

 

Mail & Calendar App


By default, M&C app will install an outlook account according to your sign in. I sign into W10 with a non MS account "---@gmail.com" so my default account is listed like this, I can't seem to straighten it out/ delete/change it. Suggestions appreciated.

 

Mail App in Windows 10

Hi John,

We apologize for the delay in response.

Follow the below steps and check if it helps.

Step 1:

I suggest you to follow the below steps to change the Mailbox sync settings.

• Open the Mail app and sign in to your account.
• Click on the gear icon (Settings) from the bottom left corner.
• Click on the Accounts under
  Settings.
• Click on your account and select Change settings.
• Click on the Change mailbox sync settings and check in the
  Sync options.

If the issue persist, follow the below step.

Step 2:

I suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the mail app, reconfigure the email account in mail app and check if the mail app is working properly.

Follow the below steps to uninstall the Mail and Calendar apps.

• Open the Start menu, type Windows PowerShell in the search bar.
• Right click on the Windows PowerShell and select
  Run as administrator.
• Enter the below command to reinstall the Mail and calendar app.

get-appxpackage *microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps* | remove-appxpackage

Note: After performing the above steps, install the Mail and calendar app form the Windows store.

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.