Windows Spotlight is a fancy feature which exists in Windows 10 November Update 1511. It downloads beautiful images from the Internet and shows them on your lock screen! So, every time you boot or lock Windows 10, you will see a new lovely image. However, Microsoft made the downloaded images hidden from the end user. Here is how you can find those images and use them as your wallpaper or somewhere else.
To get access to image files downloaded by the Windows Spotlight feature, follow the instructions below.
- Press Win + R shortcut keys together on the keyboard to open the Run dialog. Tip: See the complete list of Win key shortcuts available in Windows.
- Enter the following in the Run box:
%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
Press Enter - A folder will be opened in File Explorer.
- Copy all the files you see to any folder you want. This PC\Pictures is suitable.
- Rename each file you copied to add a ".jpg" extension. You can do so by either selecting each file, and pressing F2, then Tab to quickly rename files.Or an even faster way would be to open a command prompt at the selected folder and type this command:
Ren *.* *.jpg
You are done:
Also, you can download very huge collection of Spotlight images from here:
- Download new Lock Screen backgrounds from Windows 10 version 1511
- Download Windows 10 Lockscreen images from Windows 10 RTM
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Interesting note: If you open an irfanview window, and drag the image [without .jpg extension] in to it, irfanview will automatically re-name it for you.
Yep, you are right. It has the appropriate option in settings. This behavior can be disabled.
To view only jpg files in the user spotlight folder I recommend this tool: SpotlightPicView
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Thanks, but I will use my Tweaker app, as mentioned in the article.
It does its job perfectly :)
Grazie, molto snella e utile!
I used the Find lock screen Images tool in Winaaro and it somehow set the default image from winaero permanently on my lockscreen. I’ve been trying reg hacks, gpedits and various other possible fixes for some time now and still have not found a solution to removing this image and inserting my own.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization has my image set in the lockscreenimage key.
As a note, In Settings>lockscreen it now has the message “Some settings are managed by your organization” on top. I haven’t found this anywhere else – just this one location.
Any idea?
You can delete the lockscreenimage value and restart your PC. this will “unlock” options in Personalization – Lock Screen.
You can also press “reset to defaults” in Winaero Tweaker on the default lock screen background page.
Thanks a lot for sharing this.
In the current release of the Fall Creators update this doesn’t work anymore! Maybe there is a new folder new instead. Has anyone any idea?
Win 10 1909 не работает. в Папке Local State больше нет папки Asets. И кнопка Get all images stored on this PC тоже не работает.
Посмотрю, поправлю.
Win 10 1909 doesn’t work.
What exactly?
I successfully grabbed images in version 2004. All works.
I would love an option to auto-save these into a directory after login, and another option to automatically set the desktop wallpaper to the current lock screen after logging in.
thanks.
i can’t find any spotlight pictures on selecting the tweek find lock screen images? is there another setting somewhere I need to look at to enable this to work? running the latest Windows 10 build
I can’t thank you enough for this tool! If you ask me, this is by far the best feature of Windows Tweaker, I created a theme from a folder containing Windows Spotlight wallpapers, so it can be dynamically updated with new images, thanks man.