Personalize your lock screen

To tweak your lock screen to your liking, select the Start button, then select Settings > Personalization > Lock screen . Try changing the background to a favorite photo or slide show, or choose any combination of detailed and quick status notifications to show you upcoming calendar events, social network updates, and other app and system notifications.

Select Windows spotlight for beautiful photography to show up automatically on your lock screen. Windows Spotlight updates daily with images from around the globe, and it also shows tips and tricks for getting the most out of Windows.

If Windows spotlight isn’t working as expected, here are some things you can try:

If you don’t see the option to change the background to Windows spotlight at Settings > Personalization > Lock screen , it could be because that setting is managed by your organization. Check with your system administrator for more info.

Keep in mind Windows spotlight won’t appear after restarting or shutting down your device—an account with spotlight turned on needs to be signed in to Windows first. To test if Windows spotlight is working correctly, press Windows logo key + L to lock your device. The Windows spotlight image should appear on the lock screen.

If you don’t see the Windows spotlight image when you’re signing in, select the Start button, then select Settings > Personalization > Lock screen . Then make sure Show lock screen picture on the sign-in screen is turned on.

How to Find Windows 10’s Spotlight Lock Screen Pictures

By Andrew E. Freedman 08 September 2016

If you have Windows 10’s default, Spotlight feature enabled, your lock screen shows gorgeous images courtesy of Microsoft. Some of these high-quality photos are nature shots while others are pictures of great cities around the world. The pictures rotate several times a day, but what if you see an image you like and want to keep a copy of it on your laptop? Windows keeps these Windows 10 lock screen photos buried deep in a hidden directory, but with a bit of digging, you can find them, save them and even use them as desktop wallpaper.

Here’s how to find Windows 10’s Spotlight lock screen images:

How to find Windows 10’s Lock Screen Images

1. Click View in File Explorer.

2. Click Options. A Folder Options window will appear.

3. Click the View tab.

4. Select «Show hidden files, folders and drives» and click Apply.

5. Go to This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > [YOUR USERNAME] > AppData > Local > Packages > Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy > LocalState > Assets

You’ll be presented with a plethora of file names that make absolutely no sense and show no extensions. There’s no great method of telling which ones are beautiful photos and which are icons, but you’re better off clicking on items with larger file sizes.

6. Copy the most recent large files to another folded (ex: pictures).

7. Rename the files and add the files suffix .jpg to the end of their names.

You should now be able to view the pictures in any image viewer or editor you want.

One more thing: keep in mind that Microsoft adds and removes these at its whim. If you see one you like, pounce on it and make a copy before it goes away, possibly forever.

How to Save Windows 10 Spotlight Lock Screen Pictures

Windows 10 includes a limited collection of desktop backgrounds to choose. And, the Windows Spotlight feature, previously limited to Windows 10 Home, became available in the Pro edition via the November Update.

It provides a travel log of stunning background images taken from around the world on your Lock Screen. Many of these are desktop worthy, too. Here’s how you can find and collect those pictures.

Find Windows Spotlight Lock Screen Pictures

Windows Spotlight Images are not stored in the most obvious of places. First, open your user folder, press Windows key + R then type: %userprofile% and hit Enter.

When File Explorer opens up, you’ll need to turn on Show hidden files and folders. Click the View tab then check the box: Hidden items within the Show/Hide group.

The AppData folder will now appear in your User folder. Open it then navigate to Local > Packages > Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy > LocalState > Assets.

The images will appear as blank files, select all of them Control + A then copy with Control + C. Create a new folder in your Documents folder or on the Desktop then paste the files with Control + V.

Open the folder containing the blank Files, click File menu > Open Command Prompt > Open Command Prompt as administrator.

Type the following command: Ren *.* *.jpg then hit Enter. This batch command will convert the blank files to JPEG images and make them visible.

Your mileage might vary, though. I don’t know if it’s because I am using a limited data plan, why I don’t have many of these Spotlight images stored. Some of the files will be asset images, used as resources for app icons; you can delete what you don’t need.

You can periodically check the folder for new images. If you want an easier way to obtain new wallpapers for your desktop, check out our article on how to download and install Windows Themes.

Add Windows 10 Lock Screen Pictures to Your Wallpaper Collection

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Microsoft has made Windows 10’s login screen more visually pleasing than ever by displaying high-resolution images in the background, akin to the company’s Bing search engine. The feature is automatically enabled as part of «Windows Spotlight,» which may also show ads along with «suggestions» but generally just rotates through photos on your login screen.

The pictures are of a good enough quality to be used as the wallpaper on your desktop background and if you’ve seen one recently that’s worth adding to your collection, there’s a chance the image is still stored locally. However, accessing the cached lock screen photos isn’t so simple. Among other hindrances, they are saved to an unfrequented location in Windows 10’s user files.

Shortcut: Use an App

Originally this article detailed where to find Windows Spotlight images, batch rename them, and get them locally. While still a valid method, TechSpot reader Captain Five brought it to our attention that a Windows Store app called Dynamic Theme allows you to browse, save and rotate images from Bing and Windows Spotlight automatically.

We’ve tried it and it works pretty well, plus it offers some advanced options, for example letting you save new images every day to a local folder, choose where to use the images (wallpaper or lock screen, or both), and to sync them across your PCs. Honestly why go through all the trouble when you can use this instead. SpotBright is another Windows Store app (who knew there was actual useful stuff in there) that will let you download Spotlight wallpapers with no fuss.

Where to Find the Lock Screen Pictures

As a prerequisite, make sure that «Show hidden files, folders and drives» is enabled: Open Windows File Explorer, click on «View» and check the box next to «Hidden items.»

After that’s done, copy the following directory path into your File Explorer:

Once you’re there, you should see a series of files without any file extensions or thumbnail previews, so you can’t tell if they’re even image files much less wallpaper-worthy ones, and in fact many of them are lower resolution images that aren’t adequate for any desktop background, such as app icons.

Sorting the files to find larger ones is a simple method for picking out the higher resolution pictures and you can manually rename the files with .jpg at the end to begin using them as you would with any other image.

However, the process of gathering and renaming them is easier if you copy all of the files to a new directory where you can apply an extension to each file at once with the Command Prompt, at which point the wallpapers will be apparent from the thumbnail previews.

To batch rename all the files with .jpg as the suffix:

• Open a Command Prompt window (right click Start > Command Prompt)
• Go to the new folder (example: cd C:\Users\TechSpot\Desktop\lockscreen images)
• Once at the new lock screen images folder, enter the following command: ren * *.jpg

All of the files in the folder should be automatically appended with the .jpg file extension. If some of them still lack thumbnails, try changing the suffix from .jpg to .png.

More Spotlight Photos & Disabling Ads.

Not every Windows Spotlight image is going to be on your local drive, but there are hundreds more available for download in these collections on Imgur and OneDrive. Additionally, there’s an app called «SpotBright» which provides a graphical user interface for downloading Spotlight wallpapers.

To disable Spotlight ads, etc. so you only get great wallpapers when you log into Windows 10: Open the personalization menu, click the «Lock screen» settings on the left and change «Windows spotlight» to «Picture» or «Slideshow» in the dropdown menu. Then scroll down and turn off «Get fun facts, tips, and more from Windows and Cortana on your lock screen.»

There are also a range of group policy options for enabling only specific Spotlight features, with Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Cloud Content\Do not show Windows Tips being the one that disables ads (search for gpedit.msc via Start, Run etc. to launch the Group Policy Editor).

Bonus

Some of the lock screen images have location and other information if you right click the image, go to Properties and then the Details tab. You can also change the format of the time displayed on the lockscreen:

• Search for intl:cpl via Start or Run
• Set your preferred time format on the window that opens
• Go to the Administrative tab and click Copy Settings. so they appear on the welcome screen

Windows 10 как достать картинки с экрана блокировки?

Те самые, которые появляются когда вы блокируете компьютер. Иногда там появляются действительно отличные изображения которые хочется сохранить.

• нажимаем на клавиатуре сочетание клавиш win + r, в появившемся окне вводим:

• нажимаем enter
• откроется проводник, перейдём на один каталог вверх, для этого надо нажать в проводнике кнопку ↑ или сочетание клавиш alt + ↑, далее переходим по следующему пути:

• внутри папки будут файлы, это изображения нажимаем сочетание клавиш ctrl+a и ctrl+c (так мы скопировали их все)
• теперь нужно создать или зайти в уже имеющуюся папку для картинок\обоев, и нажать ctrl+v (теперь картинки в нашей папке), сразу скопируйте путь папки с файлами
• осталось добавить к ним расширение .jpg, быстрее всего сделать это через командную строку, для этого нажимаем сочетание клавиш win+r (как в самом начале) -> вводим cmd и нажимаем кнопку “открыть”
• делее введите: cd и вставьте путь к папке должно выглядеть примерно так

• нажмите enter
• теперь просто скопируйте и вставьте следующий код:

• нажмите enter (этот код добавляет всем файлам в папке расширение .jpg)
• в папке ещё остался мусор ввиде меких файлов, удалим его с помощью этого кода:

forfiles /S /M *.jpg /C «cmd /c if @fsize LEQ 200000 del @file