When it comes to customizing your desktop, OS X seemingly provides anything you could want—there are a number of Apple-provided images, there are connections to your user’s Pictures folder and iPhoto ...

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 ...

Changing a Mac’s appearance settings, accent and highlight colors and even individual application color schemes can make quite a style statement. But these adjustments can enhance functionality, too.

Judy Port wants to change the text color in desktop icon captions. Microsoft doesn’t provide that option, but there’s a trick to turning the default white text to black. You can also turn off the drop ...