If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

Creating custom wallpapers and screensavers used to mean either hiring a designer or spending hours wrestling with complicated software. Today, platforms built for one-click background creation have ...

Nothing is quite as impersonal and boring as the generic background already loaded on your computer. Whether it’s a drop of water or a landscape view of a place you’ve never been, it’s time to change ...

Ed. note: If you do extensive reading on a computer screen you know how quickly stark black-on-white text can strain your eyes. One Lifehacker reader, tired of straining his eyes, changed the default ...