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2000 and ME: the Pre-XP era

Before the arrival of what was one of Microsoft’s best operating systems, Microsoft released two new versions of its operating system. On the one hand we have Windows 2000, a version based on NT designed especially for business environments, and on the other hand we have Windows ME, one of the biggest failures in the history of the system that is best forgotten.

Windows 2000, being a system for business use, had few funds, but quite professional. Windows ME, on the other hand, included all the Windows 2000 backgrounds, but also had some additions. These funds were taken mainly from Corbis and PhotoDisc, although some photographs taken by the company’s own workers were also included.

We can find all these funds here.

Windows 11: the future

Windows 11 It arrives as the successor to Windows 10 (even though Microsoft promised that this was going to be the last Windows). The company has opted for a complete facelift for the system, from the desktop to the windows, the start menu and the way it works. Despite being a Windows 10 update, almost everything is new on this system.

As expected, Microsoft wanted to differentiate this new system from its predecessors by using its own wallpapers. Removing some landscapes, the new Windows backgrounds are 3D rendered backgrounds, abstract shapes and figures designed by the company itself. Employee and external images are no longer used.

The default background varies depending on whether we use a light or dark theme. But, in both cases, it is the following (changing the tonality).

We can download all the original Windows 11 backgrounds for free from the following link. Of course, it is likely that, as the system evolves, we will find other new funds that will be added to the customization options of this OS.

Backgrounds of the first versions of Windows

The first versions of this operating system had nothing to do with the operating system that we know now. The first Windows they were little more than programs that ran on top of a major operating system, MS-DOS.

These archaic systems did not have a wallpaper as such, since the computer science of that time did not allow it. Instead, they used a solid color on which the different windows were opened and the icons of the programs were placed. The colors of these screens were very basic, and the most common are green, gray and blue. It wasn’t until the arrival of Windows 95 that we finally got to see the first wallpapers as we know them today.

Windows 3.x was among the first to include some shapes and frames as a background (shapes that should be placed in the form of a mosaic). Among others, the bricks and Egyptian shapes stood out, which, although rare, were beginning to shape the customization of the operating system.

We can download these funds from this link.

Wallpapers

Windows 95 has a set of tiles in Bitmap format, as well as one full screen wallpaper, Clouds. No information is available on who produced any of the wallpapers, but the pixel art tiles were likely either designed in-house or outsourced to an external graphic designer. Some of the high color ones featuring photos may have utilized licensed stock photos, but no origins have been found. All of these were reused in Windows 98 and Me.

The filenames on the disc generally differ from the names given after installation; these names are listed here too.

Name	Original filename	Resolution	Notes
Black Thatch	thatch2	31×30
Blue Rivets	rivets2	16×16
Bubbles	bubbles	64×64
Carved Stone	egypt	32×32
Circles	circles	32×32
Clouds	clouds	640×480	Likely serves as the branding wallpaper, as the clouds are a major part of 95’s branding
Forest	forest	256×256
Gold Weave	gator	256×256
Houndstooth	hounds	27×25
Metal Links	mesh	200×180
Pinstripe	pstripe	30×32
Red Blocks	3dblocks	54×96
Sandstone	sand	256×256
Stitches	weave2	96×96
Straw Mat	bamboo	30×32
Tiles	redtile	32×32
Triangles	pyramid2	16×16
Waves	halftone	32×32

Fun stuff folder

The folder on the CD includes a folder named pictures, which features Clouds as well as another branding wallpaper called win95, featuring the Windows 95 logo over the same clouds. This wallpaper greatly resembles the bootscreen, although the Windows flag is larger here. None of the contents of the folder are installed during setup, so these can only be found by browsing the CD.

The win95 wallpaper.

Pre-release

The first leaked build of Windows 95 is build 58s. While the tiles here are the same as in 3.1, two new wallpapers are introduced: Chicago and Warning. Build 73f adds Constrct and renames Warning to Work, while adding a new Warning wallpaper. Build 116 replaces the previous work wallpaper with a new full screen wallpaper of the same name. All of these were replaced with the final wallpaper set by build 310.

Name	Resolution	Notes
Chicago	635×437	Removed in build 310
Constrct	640×480	Introduced in build 73f; removed in build 310
Warning (build 58s)Work (builds 73f-99)	320×160	Introduced in build 58s; removed in build 116
Warning	258×119	Introduced in build 73f; removed in build 116
Work	640×480	Introduced in build 116; removed in build 310

Windows 10: we come to today

Windows 10 It was launched in 2015, although it has been receiving new versions every several months with news, corrections and, among other things, background changes. The default background of this operating system is the classic blue background with the Windows logo. In the first editions (until 2018), this background had a dark blue color, while since 2019, the background changed a bit and opted for a much more pleasant light blue.

Windows 10 also has other backgrounds of landscapes and flowers, one of the best known being the woman running on the beach. This operating system also had backgrounds for the lock screen and, thanks to Spotlight, every day we can enjoy a new background.

In addition, some test versions, or builds, released for Insider users had some funding for market research, many of which did not reach the final versions.

We can find the original Windows 10 backgrounds at this link. And the funds of the Technical Preview here.

Windows 8 and 8.1: back to “bad Windows”

In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, an operating system that completely broke everything seen so far, to the point of eliminating the start menu of the operating system. A year later, Microsoft released a revision of it, Windows 8.1, with some improvements and corrections, although insufficient.

With this operating system, the desktop went a bit to the background, the main interface being that horrible “Metro”. For this reason, the wallpapers of this system have been overlooked, despite having some very nice photographs. The default Windows 8 background was a sky blue background with two daisies.

With the arrival of Windows 8.1, Microsoft also changed the default wallpaper to an abstract orange background, and, although it kept some of the backgrounds of its predecessor, others disappeared (among them, the background of daisies).

Along with wallpapers, Windows 8 and 8.1 had several backgrounds for the lock screen for the first time.

From this link we can download the original Windows 8 backgrounds, while from this other we can download Windows 8.1.

Patterns

Windows 95 also includes a set of 8×8 patterns, which are tiled across the desktop. These are not in Bitmap format and are instead rendered through binary values. They can be applied in conjunction with a wallpaper; if the wallpaper is set to be centered, the pattern will be visible on the space surrounding the wallpaper. Due to their simplistic nature, they do not use as much memory and are thus a good option on computers with low RAM.

	Name	Code
	Bricks	187 95 174 93 186 117 234 245
	Buttons	170 125 198 71 198 127 190 85
	Cargo Net	120 49 19 135 225 200 140 30
	Circuits	82 41 132 66 148 41 66 132
	Cobblestones	40 68 146 171 214 108 56 16
	Colosseum	130 1 1 1 171 85 170 85
	Daisies	30 140 216 253 191 27 49 120
	Dizzy	62 7 225 7 62 112 195 112
	Field Effect	86 89 166 154 101 149 106 169
	Key	254 2 250 138 186 162 190 128
	Live Wire	239 239 14 254 254 254 224 239
	Plaid	240 240 240 240 170 85 170 85
	Rounder	215 147 40 215 40 147 213 215
	Scales	225 42 37 146 85 152 62 247
	Stone	174 77 239 255 8 77 174 77
	Thatches	248 116 34 71 143 23 34 113
	Tile	69 130 1 0 1 130 69 170
	Triangles	135 7 6 4 0 247 231 199
	Waffle’s Revenge	77 154 8 85 239 154 77 154

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Windows Vista: a bug, but a very nice one

After XP, Microsoft launched another of the biggest failures in company history: Windows Vista. This operating system was one of the worst performing in the history of Windows, although we cannot deny that it has also been one of the best backgrounds included by default. Some of the funds came from Getty Images, although it also allowed workers to contribute their own photos and had the help of some amateur photographers.

Windows Vista’s default background, an abstract green background with traces of light, is one of the most iconic. However, you also have other great backgrounds to choose from, most of them based on different views (a beach, a lake, a field, etc).

Depending on the edition of the operating system that we chose we could find some extra funds. For example, the Ultimate had some extra funds, as well as the Starter, despite being the most limited, had its own unique funds.

All these funds can be downloaded from the following website.

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Windows 7: a new era of light

After the failure of Vista, people feared the next system that Microsoft would launch. Fortunately, these fears were unfounded, and Windows 7 it has been, along with XP, one of the best operating systems released by the company. This system came by default with the iconic blue background with the Windows logo, although in it we could find many other alternatives, such as nature, landscape, architecture and character backgrounds. Among the latter, the 3D robot has been, together with the default background, one of the most representative.

Windows 7 also had some regional backgrounds that, depending on the region of the system, may or may not be present by default. The Spanish version of the system had, for example, 6 of these funds.

We can download these wallpapers from the following link. Also, in the “Beta” versions of Windows 7 (only accessible to subscribers) they had exclusive funds, many of which were eventually scrapped from the final version of the OS. If you want to know us, you can download them here.

Windows 95 and 98 Backgrounds

These versions of Windows, finally, included the first wallpapers. In addition to including some of the funds of its predecessor, and many others shapes for mosaic (like the famous crow’s feet), this version of Windows introduced, for the first time, two characteristic backgrounds. On the one hand, the picture of the pine, and on the other, the world-famous background of clouds.

Of course, the most iconic background of this stage of the operating system was that of the clouds, a background that even today we can place on our computer. If we still have a computer (or a virtual machine) with this system, we can extract the wallpapers, in BMP format, and use them in our current Windows.

If not, we can also lower the funds from Windows 95 and 98 for free from this website.

Windows XP: Bliss to Power

Surely all, or almost all, have ever touched this operating system. Released in 2001, and with support until 2014, it has been one of the best Microsoft operating systems, and one of the most loved. The most characteristic wallpaper of this era was the green meadow under the name of Bliss.

Microsoft finally put aside the mosaic backgrounds and bet, above all, on photographs. Of course, some abstract or computer-rendered backgrounds were not lacking either. Curiously, depending on the edition of the OS we had (Home or Pro) we could find a background with the Windows logo in blue or green.

Windows Xp It also had an edition designed for multimedia centers, the Media Center. This edition offered users new wallpapers, including the unknown Energy Bliss. There is also a version, the Starter, launched exclusively in Latin America, Russia and Turkey, which had new funds from those areas.

All the original backgrounds of each of the versions can be downloaded from here.

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Setup background

The setup background features a collage of tech-related images with a 2 color blue-black gradient map applied over it, including a keyboard, mouse, cables and CDs. It is known to have been produced in-house (along with the photos), but it is unknown who designed it. The keyboard was owned by Kevin Kennedy, who lent it to the designer. A higher quality version is also used on the first time run startup screen, although like the bootscreen it is squashed to 320×400, stretches out to 640×400, and when ran on real hardware it further stretches out to the resolution of the monitor.

Unlike setup backgrounds in Windows NT releases, this is also included as a wallpaper in C:/WINDOWS along with the other wallpapers. Windows NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 feature a very similar setup background (which previously appeared as the setup finalization background in 95 build 189), although it uses different cable and CD images, while the mouse image is in a slightly different position.

Pre-release

The first leaked build of Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago), build 58s, uses the same blue-black gradient used for 3.1’s setup background. By build 73f, this is replaced with a new monochrome background showing a desk with a CD player, a desk phone with modem, and a computer. Although the file (embedded within ) is black and white, it is displayed as black and blue while being used in the setup.

Build 189, the first build that identifies as Windows 95, introduces the final setup background, and also includes the setup background as one of the selectable wallpapers (which is used in the finalization of the setup), although the latter is the version used in NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 but with a darker shade of blue. Build 216 replaces this file with the final 95 version. Interestingly, the German localization of build 222 features a completely different background for the setup finalization process, which consists of space, accompanied by Earth and a galaxy, as well as the wordmark.