Renewed Help Section

We’ve been improving the help section at Marmalade Moon to make it really easy to learn how to customise your desktop with icons and wallpapers.

Video Desktop Tutorials

We’ve got a series of brand new video tutorials to make it simple and quick to learn how to change the icons on your computer and how to change your desktop wallpaper. Each tutorial comes with a free, downloadable PDF that you can save to your computer.

Guides for Mac and Windows

There are tutorials for how to customize your icons in Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OSX and you can learn how to customize your wallpaper on Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, on your iPad and on your iPhone or iPod.

Tutorials on all Levels

For beginners there’s an An Introduction to Desktop Customization and a series of articles with Suggestions for a Productive Desktop. I hope you find these new resources helpful and just like before all of these resources are free.

Mac OSX

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

iPad

iPhone

Pick your system for a tutorial on how to change your wallpaper.

Each tutorial includes a video as well as a text version and a downloadable PDF manual for your convenience.

How to Change the Wallpaper in Windows 7

1. Right click the desktop.
2. Choose Personalize from the menu.
3. In the window that appears, click Desktop Background at the bottom.
4. The window will now show built-in wallpaper choices, click Browse to locate your newly downloaded wallpaper files.
5. The browse for folder dialog will appear, use it to locate the folder which contains your desired wallpaper, for example Libraries\ Pictures\My Pictures\Down- loaded Wallpaper. Click OK.
6. The Desktop Background Personalization window will now display the contents of the folder you selected above. Choose the wallpaper image you would like to use, and click Save Changes at the bottom of the window.

Your changes will take effect immediately.
It’s that easy.

Click the arrow to save this handy tutorial to your computer.

Find out how to change the icons in Windows 7 or read some suggestions for how you can make your desktop productive.

These are the two easiest and most common methods for changing icons and applies to both Windows 7.

To change special system icons, such as Computer, Control Panel or Recycle Bin follow these steps:

1. Right click the desktop.
2. Choose Personalize from the menu.
3. In the window that appears, click Change desktop icons in the upper left corner.
4. Ensure that the icons you wish to be visible on your desktop are checked in the upper portion of the window and select the icon you wish to change below.
5. Click the Change Icon button to open the Change Icon window.
6. In the Change Icon window, click the Browse button.
7. Use the file selection dialog to locate to the folder that contains the icons you downloaded.
8. Choose the file you want to use as a replacement and click Open.
9. Click OK in the Change Icon window and in the Desktop Icon Settings Window.

To change the icon for a folder, like one on your desktop:

1. Right click on the folder for which you wish to apply a custom icon.
2. Choose properties from the context menu that appears.
3. Click the Customize tab at the top of the folder’s properties window.
4. Click Change Icon.
5. Click Browse in the Change Icon window.
6. Browse to the location of your downloaded icon files.
7. Click on the icon you wish to use for this icon and click Open
8. Click OK on the Change Icon Window, and again on the folder’s properties window.
   
   Your icons should immediately reflect your changes.

Click the arrow to save this handy tutorial to your computer.

Find out how to change the wallpaper on your desktop in Windows 7 or in Windows Vista. Read some suggestions for how you can make your desktop productive.

Here are the two easiest and most common methods for changing the icons in Windows XP.

 

To change special system icons, such as My Computer, My Network Places or Recycle Bin follow these steps:

1. Right click on the desktop.
2. Choose Properties from the menu.
3. In the properties dialog select the Desktop tab and then click Customize Desktop.
4. Select the icon you wish to change.
5. Click the Change Icon button to open the icon selection window.
6. In the icon selection window, click the Browse button.
7. Use the file selection dialog to locate to the folder that contains the icons you downloaded.
8. Choose the file you want to use as a replacement and click Open.
9. Click OK in the Change Icon window and in the Desktop Icon Settings Window.

You can also change the icon for a shortcut using these steps:

1. Right click on the shortcut for which you wish to apply a custom icon.
2. Choose properties from the context menu that appears.
3. Click the Shortcut tab at the top of the shortcut’s properties window.
4. Click Change Icon.
5. Click Browse in the Change Icon window.
6. Browse to the location of your downloaded icon files.
7. Click on the icon you wish to use and click Open
8. Click OK on the Change Icon Window, and again on the folder’s properties window.spage
   
   Your icons should immediately reflect your changes.

Click the arrow to save this handy tutorial to your computer.

Find out how to change the wallpaper in Windows XP or read some suggestions for how you can make your desktop productive.

How to Change Your Icons

How to Change Your Wallpaper

An Introduction to Desktop Customization

Help, I Downloaded Something and Now I Don’t Know Where it is?

Suggestions for a Productive Desktop

How to Change the Wallpaper in Windows Vista

1. Right click the desktop.
2. Choose Personalize from the menu.
3. In the window that appears, choose desktop background from the list of choices you see.
4. The window will now show built-in wallpaper choices, click Browse to locate your newly downloaded wallpaper files.
5. The browse dialog will appear, use it to locate the folder which contains your desired wallpaper, for example User\Pictures\Wallpaper. Click Open.
6. The Desktop Background window will now display the contents of the folder your chosen wallpaper image resides in.
7. Click OK. Your changes will immediately take effect.

It’s that easy

Click the arrow to save this handy tutorial to your computer.

Find out how to change the icons in Windows Vista or read some suggestions for how you can make your desktop productive.

How to Change the Wallpaper in Windows XP

1. Right click the desktop.
2. Choose Properties from the context menu.
3. In the Display Properties window that appears, click the Desktop tab.
4. The window will now show built-in wallpaper choices, click Browse to locate your newly downloaded wallpaper files.
5. The browse dialog will appear, use it to locate the folder which contains your desired wallpaper, for example My Pictures\Wallpaper. Click on the image you wish to use and then click OK.
6. The Desktop tab on the Display Properties window will now reflect your chosen wallpaper image.
7. Click OK. Your changes will immediately take effect.

It’s that easy.

Click the arrow to save this handy tutorial to your computer.

Find out how to change the icons in Windows XP or read some suggestions for how you can make your desktop productive.