11 Tips to Customize the Look and Feel of Windows For most of us, occasionally switching up the desktop wallpaper is about as adventurous as we get when it comes to customizing the appearance of Windows. But there are in fact a multitude of ways to transform the operating system to perfectly customize its look—either through Windows’ own settings or with the help of a third-party utility. These are some of our favorite changes and tweaks for Windows customization. Advertisement 1. Set a dynamic wallpaper Your desktop backdrops don’t have to be static anymore. The free WinDynamicDesktop is here to give Microsoft’s operating system the same sort of dynamic wallpaper support that macOS has—it even ports the pictures bundled with Mojave and Big Sur for you to use (you can find more dynamic wallpapers here). As on a Mac, the idea is that the colors of your wallpaper shift as the day (and night) go by, and WinDynamicDesktop lets you use the sunrise and sunset times of a specific location or custom timings that are preset by you.