Autumn. This wallpaper elicits thoughts of cosy jumpers, a roaring fire, and frolicking in the leaves. A touch of class right on your desktop. If a picture says a thousand words, and Windows XP's ...

Editor’s Note: PCWorld originally published this story in 2014. This year, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of Charles O’Rear’s iconic photo in 1996, which became the basis of the Windows XP ...

The desktop background displayed by default in Windows XP was taken by a photographer named Charles O'Rear in a landscape of a wine farm in California, and Microsoft bought the photo. O'Rear ...

A major shakeup to the overall Windows '95 and '98 aesthetic, XP's bright blue default theme was accompanied by its desktop wallpaper depicting Napa Valley wine country. Windows XP also became one ...

Everyone has seen the Windows XP desktop image called Bliss. It’s been ubiquitous for 13 years. And you’ve probably always thought that the serene hillside is kind of corny and probably fake.

high-resolution desktop wallpapers and you want to make a change? It turns out that Microsoft's design team has rendered an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper—you might know ...

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 ...

The iconic Windows XP 'Bliss' background, which features a green hill overlooked by a sunny blue sky was a staple of office and computer room décor in the 2000s. It was the default background for ...

Now blanketed by endless rows of wine grapes is “Bliss” hill, the subject of one of the most-viewed images in history: the default desktop wallpaper for the Windows XP operating system.

Windows XP was an actively supported Microsoft product ... pre-Android world—helped make its default wallpaper one of the most recognizable images on the planet. Microsoft is returning to ...