How to Change account Picture in Windows 8

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We are still playing with windows 8 basics, so far we have published two simple tricks.

In today post we will learn how to change profile picture in windows 8(the latest release).

In the previous versions of Microsoft windows, there were no linkage between your windows operating system and your Microsoft account that is Hotmail.com or Live.com.

The latest version of windows released by Microsoft have tons of features, including synchronization between your Microsoft account and your windows 8 operating system.

You can use your email address as Microsoft account to sign in to windows, once you done, then you will be able to access your files from anywhere, your photos, and settings.

When you turn on your computer, I suppose you have installed windows 8, then you might noticed, that you have to login into your pc in order to get the start menu screen and use your pc.

If you’re new to the Microsoft windows 8. Then let me explain for you a little.

In the latest windows whenever you are installing your operating system, then you must have to create your account , if you have already Microsoft account, then Microsoft windows will use your Microsoft account as your windows account, if not then you you’ve to create your account, what you need is an email address and some other info.

Once you have successfully installed. Then whenever you start windows, you must to sign in. and there you’ve your account/profile picture. So today post is dedicated to changing your profile/account picture.

For this purpose you don’t need internet connection, you can change manually.

Let start over:

Step-1: Hover your mouse on the top-right corner, in other words bring your mouse to the right top corner of your windows screen. You’ll see a metro sidebar menu,

Step-2:  At the bottom, click on settings, and then click on PC settings.

Step-3: A new window will open, click on personalize at the left side, then click on account picture at the top-right side.

Now you’ll see a browse button, click on it. Windows will bring you to your local hardware files, you can use Go Up to locate your desire picture that you want to use as a profile picture for your windows.

Once you selected, then click on Choose image. Finally you’re done. And your windows account picture was successfully changed and saved.

Bonus Tips:

From the above steps, you can easily change your account picture, but there are two things more that you can do along with your account picture, that is you can change lock screen picture in the personalize Pc Settings, which is the background picture, whenever you turn on your pc but before you sign in to windows, and the second one is the start screen picture, which is the background picture of start screen. Hopefully you like these three basic windows 8 tips and tricks. 

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