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How To Save Windows Spotlight Lockscreen Wallpapers And Use As Wallpaper


Windows 10 has a unique feature called "Windows Spotlight". It shows a group of pre selected photos by Microsoft on lockscreen. You can save them for later use including on your phone,laptops and PCs. Spotlight images are cached on your local PC and hidden in a particular folder. To save them to use as wallpaper, just follow the simple steps given below.


Steps:

  • Hold Windows Key and press R key(Win+R). It will open Run Dialog Prompt.



  • Now, Enter the following command without quotes and hit Enter. It will open a  folder where all spotlight files is stored as cache.

"%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets"



  • Now, Copy and Paste all files to your desired folder.
  • You need to give JPG Extension to all files. To do that follow steps below. 
  • Hold Shift key and Right click on the blank space of folder. Select "Open command prompt here" option. It will open a command prompt in the current directory.
  • Type this command without quotes and hit Enter.
"Ren *.* *.jpg"

  • Now, all files are converted to ".jpg" format. There will be some junk files along with wallpapers those aren't images at all.

  • Delete them. Remaining files are your spotlight wallpapers cached on your laptop/PC. 

  • There will be some portrait images also. You can use them as your smartphone's lockscreen wallpaper.
  • Quantity of images depend on how many Spotlight images were produced/cached on your PC. You can re-run this tutorial every couple of weeks for new images.


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1 comments:

  1. Great tutorial man. Thanks for your effort. But what about something more advanced, e.g. multiboot USB drive with Win7, WinXP and some Linux distros without any application, only from command line. Doesn’t matter whether linux or windows command line. Could you prepare some tutorial also for this? I guess it’s a sufficient challange 😉
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