# Change the desktop background randomly or according to the time of day in Windows 10

You can change the desktop wallpaper randomly, in a fixed order, or even based on the time of the day. Imagine, if it’s morning and a rising-sun wallpaper is on your desktop or it’s night, and there’s a moonlight wallpaper on your desktop. How it sounds? And you don’t have to download any app for this task. Windows itself provides this feature to the users.

### To make your desktop wallpaper change randomly in Windows 10, follow these steps :

Step 1: Right-click on desktop

Step 2: Click on **Personalize**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622136460997/QFy2ELLiD.png)

Step 3: Now, in the **Background settings**, click on drop-down list.

Step 4: Click on **Slideshow**

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622136486873/Oo9PW587K.png)

Step 5: Now, you can choose the folder from where the wallpapers can be changed randomly, set delay, and do other customization. You can turn **shuffle** ON if you like.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1622136523353/ZwYQQDV6d.png)

The setting in the last screenshot above is all you can customize it in your desired way.

The frequency of changing the wallpaper can be **1 minute, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours** and **1 day**.

### What to do, if I want to change wallpaper according to time of the day?

To change the Wallpapers according to the time of the day, follow these steps :

Step 1: Download the wallpapers which you like, and keep them in a separate folder.

**Remember** : 
> 
The files are recognized in alphabetical order. So, rename all the image files according to the order you want to see. You can number it if you like.

Step 2: go to the above mentioned settings.

Step 3: Select the folder, where your images are stored, by clicking on **Browse**.

Step 4: Set the delay to **6 hours.**

Step 5: Keep the **shuffle** OFF.

That’s it. Now, show your dynamic desktop to your friends who don’t know this.