Background setting behind Photoshop

I've seen Mac's running photoshop and PC's and there seems to be a fundamental difference in what's shown on the screen behind any opened image.  On a PC this can be set as Grey/Black etc, however on a PC it's seems to show the desktop as the background.  I don't like this personally as it's distracting, but is there anyway of setting a PC so it can see the desktop behind or conversly on a Mac can you remove the desktop and just see a plain background.  The Preferences>Interface doesn't seem to allow the desktop as a background.  Is this just a Mac querky thing?

Dougnik12 wrote:
Is there anyway to remove the desktop as the background then so it has just a normal grey background like on a PC? Or vise versa.   
Can't understand the point of it at all, but it's annoying.
On the Mac it's done with the Application frame.
On the PC you can't see the desktop unless you "roll up" the bottom window frame.
If you can see it, just maximise the Photoshop window.

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