How to Set One Picture from a Theme as Wallpaper in Windows 10 - The Easy Way! #WIN10

Work from home in style, maximizing your Windows personalization experience.

Windows personalization themes generally come with a pack of images that automatically play in a slideshow on your desktop. Users can choose the speed of the slideshow and, depending on their software version, users can pick a single image for static display.

However, while Windows software versions prior to WIN10 allowed selection of one static image from that pack, WIN10 presents with slideshow-only theme function. There is a workaround, which involves finding your user-downloaded theme files and copy/pasting their packed images.

An abbreviated version of the personalization process:

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• Open file explorer and click on C: drive
  
• Find Users folder and open it
• Open the User folder containing downloaded theme pack
• Open AppData folder, then /Microsoft/Windows/Themes
• Click on named theme folder of choice- the folder will open and display a "DesktopBackground" folder--open it.
  
• Copy desired images to chosen folder, such as This PC/Pictures

Now you should be able to "personalize" your desktop image with your desired theme pack image via settings (accessible when you right-click your desktop).

While other users may have a different experience, it was this easy for me. No need to change any file extension names, or run any extractions, as is a common solution for the issue.

REF:

How do I find my Themes folder?

How to Cancel, Restart Amazon Prime Video Channels

Are you paying for Prime Video Channels that you haven't watched in months?

Aha! Read on to learn how to:

1. Check your subscribed Amazon Prime Video Channels
2. Cancel (or restart) a Prime Video Channel

First, sign into your Amazon account.

Next, under Amazon's "Hello, [your name]" greeting, hover over "Accounts & Lists" to access the main drop-down menu. It is here that you can find your "Memberships & Subscriptions" (circled, below).

Click on the "Memberships & Subscriptions" link (circled in orange) to arrive at the page entitled "Your Memberships & Subscriptions", pictured below. Here, you will immediately find two new drop-down menus entitled "View" and "Sort by", along with any listed memberships and subscriptions below them.

While this is in fact a reference page for "Your Memberships & Subscriptions" at Amazon, it is not the page with the link to manage cancellations and restarts of your favorite Prime Video Channels. *There is not an "advanced controls" link with the "Memberships and Subscriptions" listed here, as suggested in Amazon's Help & Customer Service regarding management of these features. Therefore, one cannot simply "cancel subscribe with Amazon subscriptions" via this page.

Rather, this method simply allows one to view a list of their memberships and subscriptions, as well as provides a text link to payment management (same method for all payments due).

So, don't drive yourself crazy looping around some of those Amazon help links found when searching how to cancel—if it looks like the link you need isn't where it's supposed to be, it's probably not! Keep reading to learn how to actually cancel or restart your Prime Video Channel Subscriptions:

How to Manage your Amazon Prime Video Channel Subscriptions

In order to cancel a Prime Video subscription, or restart one previously cancelled, it is necessary to navigate specifically to "Manage Your Prime Video Channels", which is found on the "Your Account" source page (not the banner drop-down menu).

To get there, click "Your Account" from the banner drop-down menu. This takes you to your account summary page, where you will find frames containing various links. Find the "Memberships & Subscriptions" frame, then find your "Prime Video Channels" (circled in orange, below). 

Your Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Prime Video Channels

Click on the "Prime Video Channels" link, and voila! Here you will find your Prime Video Channel invoice links, along with listed current and past subscriptions and their options to either "cancel" or "restart".  Refer to the image below for an idea what this will look like:

Under "Prime Video Channels", users cancel channels or restart cancelled channels.

Note: A user could navigate to the channel management page from the hitherto ineffectual "Memberships & Subscriptions" page, when presented with this option in a scrolling menu at page bottom. This option is shown in our second image from top at bottom left. (It just so happens that the link image text doesn't indicate that management options are available, thus users often won't click it.)

As well, a user intent solely on Prime Channel management could skip the "Memberships & Subscriptions" page altogether and head directly to "Prime Video Channels" as outlined just above. Their channels will be listed for simple reference, and they'll be able to make adjustments.

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Hopefully, this blog post about Amazon Prime Channel management helps to eliminate confusion and save some time for you. After all, the Amazon experience can be a jungle at times!

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Do you have channels listed that you haven't watched in awhile, or do you think it's time to go shopping for a new Prime Video Channel? 

Please, let us know if this how-to helped you out. We'd appreciate it! 

Movie Review: Manglehorn

Romance/Drama Stars Al Pacino & Holly Hunter, Features Harmony Korine

A brooding chapter in the life of one older man sums up Manglehorn in one simple phrase. However, to rest on such an oversimplification of fact as the total sum of a worthy review would be impossible. 

Don't be distracted by those who'd write the Manglehorn experience off as a predictable or otherwise somehow knowable story—a story of 'any old man'. Rather, treat yourself to the opportunity of another of Al Pacino's incomparable performances in a role of an unexpected kind for the tenured actor. 

A.J. Manglehorn (Angelo) hardly stands out in a society of conformity, being essentially a made man who owns his own business that serves the community. He lives in a little home on a nice block in a quiet Texas town with a red-flag mailbox. Yet, Manglehorn harbors an obsession that deserves a second look and understanding, and requires a growth of the human condition.

While Manglehorn may not be a family movie per se, anyone could watch. Ultimately, though, this is an adult-themed drama/romance movie best saved for those times when you truly have a movie moment to sit back and take it all in.

It'd be going too far to even define the Mangelhorn character as eccentric. It is, however, a worthy character study that delves into the ongoing state of sorrow experienced by a man who has come to be (mostly) alone in life. (Really, is that in itself a problem?) What is Manglehorn's greatest regret? Probably not what we initially believe. 

Despite being an introspective, creative sort who writes and sometimes draws to sort out his feelings, Manglehorn doesn't seem able to shake his depression concerning a past relationship. Will he ever break free?

Humans are a quirky, interesting lot—without contemplative films like Manglehorn, we'd normally miss out on the experience and understanding of such characters who cope with life's challenges in their personalized, yet society-conforming, ways. 

Al Pacino - Manglehorn

How do people survive? What a loss it'd be, to not have these opportunities to be flies on a wall of the less-than-braggable experiences of others, with which we ourselves are just as likely to contend in life. 

Manglehorn's supporting cast lends its own eccentricities to the life of the man, and works to engage its audience in some part of the ongoing struggles experienced by them all.

Find Manglehorn on IMDB