Patent ID: 8635549

Claim:
One or more computer-storage media devices having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of customizing a desktop background, the method comprising: determining that an image from a plurality of images has been selected by a user through a user interface appearing on a computer display; determining that the user has dragged a representation of the image from the user interface onto a hotspot located on a portion of a desktop where each hotspot is associated with a particular image-processing format that provides instructions for incorporating the image into a background for the desktop, wherein the particular image-processing format comprises one or more of a fill format, a fit format, a stretch format, a tile format, a center format, an auto format, and a span format; upon said determining that the user has dragged the representation of the image from the user interface onto the hotspot and upon determining that the user has not dropped the representation of the image from the user interface onto the hotspot, automatically displaying a preview of the desktop background generated using at least part of the image; determining that the user has dropped the representation of the image onto the hotspot; and without requiring any additional input from the user, generating a new background for the desktop, wherein at least part of the image appears in the new background, wherein generating the new background is based on 1) the particular image-processing format associated with the hotspot where the user has dragged the representation in the context of the desktop and 2) the image selected by the user, wherein the new background comprising at least part of the image is generated in the context of the desktop.