Windows 10 is the world’s most popular operating system and arguably the best Operating System (OS) Microsoft has made. The Silicon Valley software giant has now bagged more than 39 percent of the marketshare for desktop operating systems, as of December 2018. While part of Window 10’s appeal is its computing power, Microsoft’s latest incarnation also offers an aesthetic edge with its digital wallpaper range.
Microsoft has made Windows 10's home page more visually pleasing than ever by displaying high-definition wallpaper images.
The feature is automatically enabled as part of Windows Spotlight, which might also display adverts and "suggestions”, but generally the OS will rotate through photographs on your homepage.
The pictures are of a high enough quality to be used as the wallpaper on your desktop background and even more can be added.
Unfortunately, accessing the cached lock screen photos is not straightforward.
The main obstacle is the wallpaper photos are saved to an obscure area in the Windows 10 user files.
Fortunately a Windows Store app called Dynamic Theme allows users to browse, save and rotate images with ease.
How to find lock screen pictures:
Users should first of all ensure "Show hidden files, folders and drives" is enabled.
To do this, open Windows File Explorer, click View and check the box next to Hidden Items.
After this is done, copy the following directory path into your File Explorer:
%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
You should now see a series of files without any file extensions or thumbnail previews, making it impossible to tell what is what.
Sorting the files to find larger ones is a simple method for picking out the higher resolution pictures.
Users can then manually rename the photos 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.
Doing this this will finally distinguish wallpapers from the thumbnail previews.
How to batch rename files in Windows 10:
Begin by opening a Command Prompt window by right clicking Start and selecting Command Prompt.
Next go to the new folder, for example: cd C:\Users\TechSpot\Desktop\lockscreen images
Then once at the new lock screen images folder, enter this command: ren * *.jpg
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