One of the new features in Windows 10 is the Windows Spotlight lock screen.Windows 10 brings a unique feature to the table with Windows Spotlight. The option lets you set your lock screen on your PC or tablet to auto-rotate through a preselected group of photos picked by Microsoft. If you haven't already seen it you can go to Settings => Personalization and select the Lock Screen tab, in the drop down select Windows Spotlight. Next time you lock your machine (Windows + L) or have the machine wake up from sleep you'll see a stunning image
Windows Spotlight images gives you a fresh Lock screen experience every time you need to sign-in to Windows 10, but you also find and set these images as your desktop background. When the feature is enabled, new images download automatically every day on your PC, tablet, and phone allowing you to always have a fresh experience every time you unlock your device.
How to enable Windows Spotlight on the Lock screen on Windows 10
In order to download those beautiful Windows Spotlight images curated by Bing, the first thing you need to do is to enable the personalization feature on your computer.
To do so, log in to your Windows 10 account and go to Start > Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen. or you can right click on Desktop and select personalization the select Lock Screen.
From the Background drop down menu, select Windows spotlight.
Use the Windows key + L keyboard shortcut to lock your computer and view the Spotlight images.
Once you enable the feature, at different times of the day, you will see different images on the Lock screen.
How to find Windows Spotlight images on Windows 10
After enabling the feature and images begin to download automatically on your PC, they will be stored on an special folder inside your user profile folder. To find the Windows Spotlight images that you can later use on your desktop do the following:
Open Windows File Explorer, switch to the ‘View’ tab and check the box adjacent to the title ‘Hidden Items’ to force your Windows 10 OS to display all hidden files and folders and drives
Now open up the ‘C’ drive (location where usually your OS is installed) and navigate to the following address:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Asset
Inside the Assets folder, you will find a number of files with random and complicated names without extensions and different sizes. Some of these files contain the Windows Spotlight images that appear on your Lock screen. In order the to get the correct images, while on the View tab, select Details.
Use the Sort by button to sort files by Size
All of these unknown files are actually JPEG files, but many of them are not part of the Spotlight feature. You want to select only the large files — those files that are 400KB or larger –, right-click the selection and click Copy.
Create a folder on your Pictures folder or in another location and name it Spotlight images or anything. Inside the folder, right-click and select Paste.
On File Explorer, click File. Click Open command prompt. / As Administrator
On Command Prompt you can now easily convert the files to JPEG by using the rename command. Type the following command and press Enter:
Ren *.* *.jpg
If you want to give each image a more meaningful name, select the image, press F2 and rename the file to anything you like.
then change the View to Extra Large so I can see the images, you may need to do some tidy up as some images are not wallpapers so go head.
How to set Windows Spotlight images as desktop background on Windows 10
Once you have changed the file format for the images, you can set a specific image as the Lock screen, you can use them as your desktop background, or you can even create a Windows Theme with a collection of your favorite Spotlight images that you can then use on other devices or share with friends.
Right click on Desktop and select Personalization. then Click Background.
Under Background, select Picture to use only one image or Slideshow to use multiple images as desktop background. Click Browse to find and set the images.
Select the image click ok to save changes. now minimize windows . Here enjoy the spotlight image on your desktop wallpaper.
you can create a your very own Windows Theme click Themes. Click the Theme settings link.
Right-click the Unsaved Theme. Click Save theme for sharing.
Once you have created the new theme, you can simply double-click the deskthemepack file on another computer to install the new images.
How to enable Windows Spotlight on the Lock screen on Windows 10
In order to download those beautiful Windows Spotlight images curated by Bing, the first thing you need to do is to enable the personalization feature on your computer.
From the Background drop down menu, select Windows spotlight.
Use the Windows key + L keyboard shortcut to lock your computer and view the Spotlight images.
Once you enable the feature, at different times of the day, you will see different images on the Lock screen.
How to find Windows Spotlight images on Windows 10
After enabling the feature and images begin to download automatically on your PC, they will be stored on an special folder inside your user profile folder. To find the Windows Spotlight images that you can later use on your desktop do the following:
Open Windows File Explorer, switch to the ‘View’ tab and check the box adjacent to the title ‘Hidden Items’ to force your Windows 10 OS to display all hidden files and folders and drives
Now open up the ‘C’ drive (location where usually your OS is installed) and navigate to the following address:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Asset
Inside the Assets folder, you will find a number of files with random and complicated names without extensions and different sizes. Some of these files contain the Windows Spotlight images that appear on your Lock screen. In order the to get the correct images, while on the View tab, select Details.
Use the Sort by button to sort files by Size
All of these unknown files are actually JPEG files, but many of them are not part of the Spotlight feature. You want to select only the large files — those files that are 400KB or larger –, right-click the selection and click Copy.
Create a folder on your Pictures folder or in another location and name it Spotlight images or anything. Inside the folder, right-click and select Paste.
On File Explorer, click File. Click Open command prompt. / As Administrator
On Command Prompt you can now easily convert the files to JPEG by using the rename command. Type the following command and press Enter:
Ren *.* *.jpg
If you want to give each image a more meaningful name, select the image, press F2 and rename the file to anything you like.
then change the View to Extra Large so I can see the images, you may need to do some tidy up as some images are not wallpapers so go head.
How to set Windows Spotlight images as desktop background on Windows 10
Once you have changed the file format for the images, you can set a specific image as the Lock screen, you can use them as your desktop background, or you can even create a Windows Theme with a collection of your favorite Spotlight images that you can then use on other devices or share with friends.
Right click on Desktop and select Personalization. then Click Background.
Under Background, select Picture to use only one image or Slideshow to use multiple images as desktop background. Click Browse to find and set the images.
Select the image click ok to save changes. now minimize windows . Here enjoy the spotlight image on your desktop wallpaper.
you can create a your very own Windows Theme click Themes. Click the Theme settings link.
Right-click the Unsaved Theme. Click Save theme for sharing.
Once you have created the new theme, you can simply double-click the deskthemepack file on another computer to install the new images.
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