• Standard Windows 10 desktop background

    Let's tell you where to find images from "Windows: Interesting" (Windows Spotlight) in Windows 10 - I'm sure that many users using this function automatic change pictures on your computer's lock screen, you wouldn't mind saving a couple of stunningly beautiful photos from there.

    It was my beloved wife who suggested this article to me, as often happens. Yesterday she really liked the next image on the computer’s lock screen from “Windows: Interesting” and thanks to “You’re a Computer Geek,” I voluntarily and forcibly learned to fish out these photos from the wilds of the Windows 10 operating system (by the way, in two ways).

    Windows: interesting

    For those who didn’t know in the tank - V latest version operating systems It is possible, in addition to photos and slide shows, to install on the computer lock screen automatically changing images, which (if I’m not mistaken - once a day) are downloaded from the manufacturers’ servers.

    Where and how to turn on Windows Spotlight

    To begin with, I’ll show you where this whole thing comes into play. Through we go into Control Panel"Parameters" of the system...

    ...and dive into the “Personalization” section...

    There, in the “Lock Screen” item, the periodic change of images described in this article is set...



    This “yummy” in Windows 10 has won the universal love of users with its beautiful images and always an unexpected wow effect the next time you start the computer.

    Where are Windows Explore images stored?

    First, you need to turn on the display hidden folders(elements) in built-in file manager through the “View” menu item in any window...

    Next, we go to system disk(usually this is drive “C”) and click on the “Users” folder. We find there a directory under the username of your computer, where we need a translucent “AppData” folder. Already hidden in it is the “Local” folder in which “Packages” lives. Carefully click on it and look for the folder with long name"Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy"…

    Are you tired yet? There are literally a couple of “steps” left - in the “LocalState” folder...

    ...You will find the “Assets” folder...

    ...in which ours will be from the lock screen...

    Like this long way to the treasured folder…

    Don’t worry, your image previews (thumbnails) are not broken in Explorer - you just need to copy all the files from this folder (for example, to new folder to your desktop)…

    ...and rename them individually...

    …by giving the extension “.jpg”…

    Hallelujah…

    Now you can safely run any image viewer and use it to choose the most beautiful masterpieces.

    Some images will be in portrait orientation - this is for Windows 10 Mobile if you happy owner of a smartphone with this shell and use one account on multiple devices.

    You will also see square icons of some games and applications from Windows Store- just ignore them.

    A quick way to remove images from Windows Explore

    There is another, more quick way remove images from “Windows: Interesting” in Windows 10 - using a special script written kind people and posted online. It doesn’t do anything scary, virus or spyware - it just takes out all the images from “Windows: Interesting” with one click and copies them to your desktop...

    ...already renamed...

    IN operating system Windows 10 is not easy to display on the lock screen dark background, but a colorful picture. You can install or change such an image by knowing where the lock screen pictures for Windows 10 are stored or by activating the “Windows spotlight” function (Windows: interesting). It is she who is responsible for displaying photos on the lock screen.

    Step-by-step instructions for accessing pictures for the lock screen

    Previously, we wrote about how to change a picture or put a photo on the desktop in Windows 10. This time we invite you to consider the topic of how to change the background for the screen Windows locks 10.

    The new operating system, as noted above, has special function"Windows: Interesting", which in automatic mode downloads and installs various photos on the lock screen. Enabling this feature is quite easy. To do this, do the following:

    • Click “Start”, “Settings” and select “Personalization”.
    • In the menu on the left, select “Lock screen”. In the “Background” section we set “Windows: interesting”.

    • By enabling this feature, the lock screen wallpaper will automatically change.

    In order to find lock screen pictures on Windows 10, you should initially enable the display of hidden files and folders. Next, go to the address: “C:\Users\Your_UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets”. It is in this folder that all the pictures that are used on the lock screen will be located.

    Next, copy (DO NOT MOVE OR CUT) the files to any folder. Select the image, right-click on it and click “Rename”. Next, enter any name, adding the ending .jpeg or .png.

    After renaming the file, all pictures can be opened with any built-in photo viewer and the background element can be changed.

    If you don’t have enough pictures to change the lock screen, you can download additional ones on the Bing service. However, you will have to save the pictures and put them in the “Assets” folder.

    Also, any other photo can be installed through the Wallpaper Studio 10 tool. With it, you can set up a slideshow for your lock screen or desktop. The application is free and designed specifically for Windows 10.

    It is important to note that images on the lock screen that are animated consume CPU resources. Therefore, if you are using a weak PC, it is better to disable animated lock screens.

    Really cool pictures periodically appear on the Windows 10 lockscreen. How can I save them for myself (to cover my desktop, for example)? This cannot be done directly, but there is still one way.


    Windows 10 stores these images (and a few other things) directly on your computer as files with a custom extension. Our task is to find the location where the screensavers are stored, copy them to a more convenient location and assign the “correct” extension to the files. Let's get started!

    1. Make sure Windows 10 on your computer displays hidden files and folders. To check this, open Explorer and click on the View tab. Opposite the point Hidden elements there should be a tick.
    2. Through Search, go to %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
    You will be taken to the Assets folder with a large number files.
    3. Copy all the files into a separate folder and place it in a convenient place for you - for example, on your desktop.
    4. In the new folder, click File - Open command line- Open command prompt as administrator.

    5. Enter the following command: ren *.* *.jpg

    6. Return to the folder. Now there are Windows 10 screensaver photos mixed in with the “garbage”. It’s easy to separate the wheat from the chaff – just sort the files by size. The largest ones will be at the top. These are the ones we need, everything else can be safely deleted.

    The desktop wallpaper that comes with Windows 10 is very cute. Many users like this wallpaper. Readers asked me where they are stored on disk. If you're interested in finding them and want to use them somewhere else, say in your dual boot operating system like Linux or Windows 7, here's how to find them.
    Traditionally, wallpapers in Windows are stored in the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpapers folder. To find the default wallpaper in Windows 10, open File Explorer by pressing Win + E on your keyboard. Type or copy and paste the following path into the address bar:

    C:\Windows\Web
    There you will find 3 folders which contain all the default desktop backgrounds for Windows 10 − 4K, Screen, And Wallpaper.

    The 4K folder contains various sizes default wallpaper known as "hero window" images. These images are used for different screen orientations on supported devices. They are also available in 4K resolution (3840 x 2160).

    Folder Screen- The screen includes default images used to block the screen background.

    Note: When the background is enabled, Windows 10 downloads stunning lock screen wallpapers from the Internet automatically. The OS stores them elsewhere. To know more, please refer to the following article: Where to find lock screen images in Windows 10?

    Last folder Wallpaper, contains default desktop backgrounds. They are located in three folders:

    Folder Wallpaper
    This folder stores images for the built-in “flowers” ​​theme.

    Wallpaper folder following

    The Windows folder only comes with one background image.

    Folder Windows Desktop Wallpaper

    Windows 10 OS - this folder contains the default backgrounds that are displayed in the application settings out of the box.

    You might be wondering why the folder has the name "web" in its path when the images are not web related. All because of the “Active Desktop” feature in earlier versions Windows. In Windows 95 we did not have this ability to use *. jpg images as a desktop background. Later, when Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 4, it brought the “Active Desktop” feature. His key feature Now you can display your favorite web content directly on your desktop. It also had an advanced Explorer with the ability to view folders as web pages. JPEG images can also be used as a desktop background. Therefore, starting from Windows 98, Windows saves all images to a web folder

    %userprofile%\appdata\local\Microsoft\Windows\themes

    Modern Windows versions There is no support for active desktop or web browsing in Explorer, but the folder structure remains the same today. Windows 10 has basically the same wallpaper folder structure and allows you to customize the wallpaper image quality.

    Have you been using the new operating system for a long time, but still have no idea where the pictures used for the lock screen in Windows 10 are? Today we will touch on this issue and several related ones, for example, how to steal the desired picture for yourself.

    While working in the “ten”, users noticed that the lock screen screen saver periodically changes in the operating system. Sometimes they meet very beautiful pictures, which you want to use as a desktop background.

    Just to do this you need to find out where these images are stored. Advanced users even tried to find everything graphic files, stored in directories on the system volume, but all in vain, required images were never found. Why did it happen that the search did not find necessary files, consider below.

    It happens that the display of pictures is deactivated in the settings (this is especially true for fans of assemblies aimed at maximum performance Windows 10). You can enable them, select the displayed photo, play pictures as a slide show, and even change the directory with the required photos as follows.

    1. Open the “Options” menu using the Win+I key combination.
    2. Let's go to the personalization section.
    3. Make the “Lock Screen” tab active.
    4. Set the first “Background” option to “Windows: Interesting”.

    You can check if everything looks as intended by pressing the Win+L key combination, which will bring up the lock screen.

    After selecting “Photos,” you will be able to replace the background from the lock screen in Windows 10, and the “Slideshow” option will allow you to specify several pictures or directories with graphic files that will be used as slides.

    Save the graphic file from the lock screen to your collection

    Any image that is proposed to be set as the lock screen background is stored in the user's directory at the path - C:\Users\Your_Username\AppData
    \Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\. Find the “Assets” folder here and open it.

    One caveat! You may not be able to see the AppData directory just like that, since it is a system directory and therefore has the “Hidden” attribute. By default, such objects file system are not displayed in the standard Explorer window, but this is quite easy to fix with literally a single click of the mouse.

    1. Open the Explorer window Win+E or through a shortcut.

    2. Call the main menu item called “View”.

    3. Check the “Hidden elements” checkbox.

    The same is done through the “Folder Options”.

    1. Call the item “Change folder and search settings”.

    2. In the “View” tab, switch last option Move to the “Show hidden files and folders” position.

    After this, you can open the “Assets” folder, where the lock screen images in Windows 10 are located.

    You won’t be able to view a single picture just like that, unless you open an image viewer and drag a file with a long name, which is a set of characters, into its window.

    All these files are images, but without an extension, and to view them you should add its extension - jpg - to the end of the file. The absence of these characters is the reason why the Windows 10 search engine could not detect graphic files used in it as background pictures for the lock screen.

    If one photo is renamed quickly, then manually changing the names of several dozen documents takes a long time. Let's look at how to change file extensions in batches.

    1. Copy all the images to a directory that will be located in a different folder from the system folder.

    2. Rename all files to any name you like, and set the images to the “.jpg” format.

    You can now switch the way directory items are visualized to “Large Icons” or “Thumbnails” and select necessary pictures or delete unnecessary ones.

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