Win8 Encyclopedia 46: Personalized System Sound Settings

Author: Mayon

Under normal circumstances we will pay more attention to visual effects systems, and for the sound is not so concerned, but this does not mean that the sound is not important. This issue of "Win8 Encyclopedia" will introduce you to the theme sound settings and customization, so that your computer will sound different.

Setting Personalized Sounds

To modify the theme sounds, we need to operate in the personalization. Right click on the desktop and select “Personalize”, here we can see the window. Below the entrance has a "sound"; click to enter to start our setup.
Personalized sound settings

Here we can see a menu of "sound schemes", where we can choose the configuration according to your preferences, but by default we don't have Too many options, so it doesn't make much sense. We are more customizable to make our computer sound more individual.
Sound plan selection

In the following "Program events", we can see that there are many names of program operations, which is actually the sound of each program operation, such as emptying the rustling of the recycle bin. . Here you can customize, select a program event, the following "sound" is activated, and then we are free to choose the sound to match.
Program events set sound effects separately

Here we can also notice that "Windows startup sound" is not checked by default, if you want to hear the classic when you turn on the computer Windows boot sound, then hook it.

Finally, we will introduce a practical setting by the way, switch the window to the "Communication" tab, where we can see several options. This is the setting that automatically adjusts the system volume when making or receiving calls from a computer. We can choose to mute all other sounds, or set them to only 80%, 50% of the volume, and of course you can do nothing.
Communication settings

It should be noted that the sound part is mainly about the theme sound effects, and does not involve speakers, headsets, etc. We will specifically talk about this content in the future. To. The sound setting during communication is a very user-friendly function, and users who frequently use Skype can try it.

Setting up personalized wallpapers

After talking about the sound, we still have to talk about the screen. Today we mainly introduce the settings of the wallpaper, and will also cover some topics. Content.

Also in the "Personalization" window, the most topical part is the theme window we are familiar with, here we are free to switch the downloaded theme. But one problem is, if we are only interested in some of the wallpapers in the theme, what should we do.

In fact, this is not difficult, choose the "wallpaper" below to enter the desktop background window. Here we can choose any picture we want as a computer wallpaper, so all we have to do is find the location of the theme wallpaper.
Wallpaper Settings

Click “Browse”, find “username\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Themes”, then you can see the folder for each theme, including Every theme wallpaper. It should be noted that AppData is usually hidden, so you need to display the hidden folder first to find it.
Theme folder address

We found the corresponding folder, we can see each picture in the window, we can check the picture according to preferences, cancel those that do not like it. When selecting multiple images as wallpapers, we can also change the interval between image switching times, or choose to play them out of order.
Change the picture interval

So that we can only play the wallpaper we like when using the theme, is it very simple? And we can also save this new theme and save it to the cloud via Win8's Microsoft account.

The above is the full content of this issue of "Win8 Encyclopedia". We mainly introduce personalized sound settings and wallpaper settings, and are not bound by the established theme. Win8 is about creating a proprietary system for each user, which is also reflected in the theme settings.