Changing the background is a piece of cake. On the home screen...click near the upper left where it says "Home" to bring down the drop-down menu. Go to "Tools" and then select "Set background image"....browse to where you have your image stored and then select it. That's it! I'm using a background that I got from http://www.interfacelift.com I'm using a 1024x768 image as that's the lowest I could find....works great!