Windows 10: Windows 10 is getting new personalization settings

Windows 10’s next big feature update is arriving sometime in October or November and there won’t be any major changes to the operating system with the Spring update. The company is already testing new interface tweaks for Windows 10 Sun Valley update, and some changes are now live in preview builds.

The latest preview build finally includes support for ‘Windows Spotlight’, which is a feature that can display Bing wallpapers on your desktop. When the ‘Spotlight’ option is selected on the personalization page, your desktop will display beautiful images, similar to what Bing does on its homepage, lock screen and Microsoft Launcher.

It also appears that there’s machine learning involved that will display similar images in the future based on your preference.



As shown in the above screenshot, you can configure the feature by navigating to Settings > Personalization > Background. To enable Bing wallpapers, select “Spotlight Collection” in the “Background” drop-down menu.

It’s worth noting that you won’t see ads on your desktop when the spotlight feature is active and you can learn more about the wallpaper by clicking on a widget called ‘spotlight’.



This feature is entirely optional and users can disable it entirely so there’s no fear of Microsoft forcing users to use Bing recommendations.

Touch keyboard personalization


Microsoft is also introducing a new ‘touch keyboard’ personalization settings to help you change the appearance of the touch keyboard.



For example, you can soon change the colour of the keys or the borders, background opacity level, keyboard scale and more.



Device Usage “specific use cases” feature


The third new personalization setting is “Device Usage”, a new feature to optimize your Windows experience by getting recommendations for tools and services from Microsoft.

This feature is also completely optional and users must share their data to access the recommendations list. At the moment, Microsoft is testing six main categories – Gaming, Schoolwork, Creativity, Entertainment, Business and Family.

In addition to these personalization options, Microsoft is also working on modern UI and new icons for File Explorer.

All these improvements will land in the production channel later this year.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Settings/Personalization

Hi,

We suggest that you follow the steps below to put your settings back to default and see if it helps.

• Right-click your mouse on your desktop.
• Click on Personalize.
• Select Colors.
• Click on High contrast settings.
• From the drop-down menu, select None.
• Click Apply.
• Reboot the PC for the changes to take effect.

Let us know the result.

 

Changing personal settings to another in Windows 10

Hi Metso,



Welcome to Microsoft community and thank you for posting your query.

Let me help you changing the personal account.



I would suggest you to create a new user account, sign-in using your sister Microsoft account and delete your user account.

To create new user account follow the below steps.

• 
  Press the Windows key + R on the keyboard.
  
• 
  Type netplwiz and press Enter.
  
• Click on Add button and Sign in using Microsoft account.

To remove your user account follow the below steps.

• 
  Press the Windows key + R on the keyboard.
  
• 
  Type netplwiz and press Enter.
  
• Click on your user account and click on Remove button.

Hope this helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.