You still have to right click on the desktop for this. Or while in the control panel you open the "personalization" icon seen there. The screen thath comes up has the list of options seen as links to open other screens like themes, screensaver and power options. display settings. appearance amd effects, and the boackground where you simply browse to a folder for a bmp or jpg file if you don't want anything included with Windows. You no longer have to click on an apply button since the change now is automatic.