And, according to my peepers, Windows has never had a better aesthetic combination than the blue taskbar, green Start button, and gentle rolling hills of the Windows XP default wallpaper.

Ever wanted to rock the world's most iconic operating system wallpaper on your feet? Well now you can thanks to Microsoft's ...

The wallpapers are distributed in ZIP format, and the ZIP file includes 3 wallpapers arranged in a painterly style in addition to the Windows XP wallpaper. When I actually set it as my PC ...

I must have been around four-six years old, and while I don't remember the make or model of our home computer (it was beige-coloured), I do remember the iconic Windows XP wallpaper that's been ...

When you set 'Windows XP wallpaper' as the Windows 10 wallpaper, it looks like this. Although the colors and composition are slightly different from the original, the atmosphere is enjoyable.

Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.

These wallpapers aren't old; they're retro. To be clear, I spent my formative years with Windows 98 (Second Edition, naturally) and later graduated to Windows XP for my MSN Messenger-addicted teens.

After Windows 98, every update came with refinements in the user interface, but it wasn't until Windows XP in 2001 that we really saw a change in color and layout. The classic Windows XP wallpaper.

Over on Microsoft’s Windows blog, Microsoft has published a basket of different wallpapers for Windows PCs, which you can download here for free. They’re actually cooler than you think!