Spotlight — набор обоев от «Windows: интересное»

Spotlight — это набор фоновых изображений для рабочего стола, начального экрана и экрана блокировки, отобранных из коллекции сервиса «Windows: интересное», доступного пользователям Windows 10. В набор вошло 50 изображений, каждое из которых предлагается в двух версиях: для персональных компьютеров и смартфонов (в вертикальной ориентации).

Как обычно выше предложено лишь несколько обоев для примера, весь набор в исходном качестве в целях экономии вашего времени и трафика доступен в архиве по ссылке ниже.

How to save Windows Spotlight lockscreen images so you can use them as wallpapers

Windows 10 brings a unique feature to the table with Windows Spotlight. The option lets you set your lockscreen on your PC or tablet to auto-rotate through a preselected group of photos picked by Microsoft. At the top of the right-hand corner, you can give a thumbs up or down if you liked it like Pandora. If you gave it thumbs down, off it goes. A thumbs up, however, will produce similar images on the next run.

You can read our tutorial on how to get it working if you are new to Windows 10: ‘How to enable Windows spotlight in Windows 10 to keep your lock screen awesome’

Those images produced by Spotlight tend to be awe-inspiring, which means you may want to save them on occasion for later use including on your phone (where, unfortunately, Spotlight has yet to arrive). Today, we’ll show you how to do just that!

How to save Spotlight images

As you can probably figure, Spotlight images are cached on your local PC and hidden in a particular folder. They’re given awful names like ‘8d71495e43fa1c6887a8840aa45…’ but that is a different battle. Here is how to find them, copy them and save them for later use.

Hold down your Windows key plus R [Win + R] to launch the Run dialog prompt

Enter in the following command and then hit OK. Your best bet is to copy and paste:

A folder will be opened in File Explorer with non-specific file names.

Copy and paste the files into a new folder preferably something under This PC > Pictures > Spotlight as a permanent location (or under OneDrive so you can have them everywhere).

Note: You will see a warning prompt when you go to copy the files, simply hit OK to the warning.

You need to rename all the files with the JPG extension. You could do this one by one or in a batch command – here is how to do the latter:

Hit Shift + Right-click with your mouse in the directory where you copied the images. Choose Open command window here and type in (or copy and paste)

This action will rename all the files with a JPG extension.

Note: Some of the files are cached junk and won’t be actual images from Spotlight.

Filter and clean up

Some of the images won’t be images at all so delete all the files you do not want (use Ctrl + Left-click on the mouse to multi-select files).

Bonus: Some of the images will also be vertical. For the vertical images, you may want to copy and paste them into a different folder as you can use them for your smartphone’s Start or Lock screen.

That’s it! You may notice that you only have so many images available as it depends on how many Spotlight images were produced on your PC. You may want to re-run this tutorial every couple of weeks (or on different PCs if you have them) to recoup even more photos.

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How to download all Windows Spotlight images

Windows Spotlight is a fairly new feature that is exclusively available on devices running Windows 10 that changes the lockscreen experience by displaying new images on a regular basis with options to leave feedback for each image displayed this way.

These wallpaper images are similar but not necessarily identical to the images that Microsoft displays on the startpage of its Bing search engine.

If you like those images, you may want to set them as the desktop background on your computer system as well and maybe even if you don’t run Windows 10.

Download all Windows Spotlight Images

You have several options to download these images of which most are exclusive to devices running Windows 10.

The Windows Store Spotbright application

The application, available for mobile devices and PCs running Windows 10 can download all Spotlight pictures in a single operation.

All you need to do is the following to use it to download all Windows Spotlight photos to your system:

1. Install SpotBright from its Windows Store page. The app is free to run and use, but displays advertisement by default. It is not much of an issue, but you can purchase the Pro version for $0.99 to remove the advertisement and support the author.
2. Click on «fast search» to scan for available pictures.
3. SpotBright displays a download button after the scan that you can click on to download them all to the local system.
4. Click on «open download location» to display the downloaded pictures in File Explorer. You find them under C:\users\[username]\Pictures\SpotBright by default.

The manual method

If you cannot install the application or don’t want to, you can still use a manual method to grab the pictures.

Good news is that Spotlight images are cached on the device running Windows 10 which means that you can access them in the cache location, or copy them from it to another location for safekeeping.

1. Open a new File Explorer window, for instance with the shortcut Windows-E, or with a click on the Explorer icon in the taskbar.
2. Paste the following path into the address bar: %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
3. This opens the picture cache. You will notice that the selection is limited in comparison to what the SpotBright application makes available.
4. These images have no extension which means that you need to rename them all to add the file extension to the file name.
5. Select all images, right-click on the selection, and select copy to create a copy of each picture in a location of your choosing.
6. Navigate to the folder you want to save the pictures in, right-click once it is open and select paste from the context menu.
7. Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe and hit enter.
8. Copy and paste the following command into the prompt (change the path to the folder you have saved the Windows Spotlight images to: Ren C:\Users\[username]\Downloads\test\*.* *.jpg
9. The command adds the file extension .jpg to each file.
10. Switch to thumbnail view in File Explorer afterwards. You will notice that some files are not images, or unusable as wallpapers. Simple delete all blank images, and those that are not suitable as wallpapers.

Download individual wallpapers directly

What if you don’t run Windows 10? You may still download Windows Spotlight images to your device for use as wallpaper.

Someone has uploaded the majority of Spotlight images to Imgur from where they can be downloaded in all of their glory.

Head over to the site to browse the selection. You may download any image individually by right-clicking on it and selecting the save option afterwards.

Now You: Do you like those images?