This operating system is aimed at visual appeal and user comfort. In OC, by default, there are background images. Where can I find standard wallpapers for windows 10 and how to download them?

Where are the default wallpapers stored in Windows 10

To find background pictures, you need to do the following:

3. In the window that opens, in the list (it is located on the left), we find the icon of the C - OS (C :) drive.

4. In the list of folders on the C drive, go to the "Windows" directory.

5. In it we find the "Web" folder. We need it, as it contains all the standard Windows 10 wallpapers on the desktop.

The "Web" folder contains three directories:

• Screen;
• Wallpaper.

The first 4K directory contains nine of the same type of drawings in the corporate style of dozens of Hero. They are specially made in various resolutions to ensure high-quality display on different types screens and monitors.

Wallpaper contains three groups of preset image files in different resolutions.

Windows Spotlight

In addition to the usual background pictures, to ensure the operation of the "Windows: Interesting" function (it automatically changes images on the lock screen), additional photos are placed in the system. How do I find them?

1. Pressing the Win + R keys at the same time will open the Run window.

2. In the "Open" field, enter the following command:

% USERPROFILE% \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy \ LocalState \ Assets

3. After clicking the OK button, a window with a list of files will open
9. Drawings need to be copied to some new folder.

Now their format needs to be made usable. If there are few files, they are manually renamed with the addition of the extension - .jpg. Have a large number documents, the name can be changed as follows:

• in the folder with the copied pictures, press the address bar;
• introduced cmd command and the Enter button is pressed;

• will appear command line, in which you need to type the combination: Ren *. * * .jpg;

• press Enter;

Everything is ready for use.

How to download windows 10 standard wallpapers

To download the background pictures of the system to a media or other device, you need to go to the desired directory, select the file of interest and, in the standard way (Ctrl + C - copy, Ctrl + V - paste), transfer it to the right address... Renamed files for "Windows: Interesting" design are easily downloaded to desired device similarly.

New versions of typical Microsoft background images can be downloaded from the official website of the company. To do this, a request is typed in the search engine - Microsoft help.

By turning on the computer, the user is planning to do a lot of things. Therefore, it is important for him to quickly get all the necessary information from various applications even before logging into the system. The Windows 10 lock screen will help provide this information, as well as provide primary protection for your computer.

What is Windows 10 lock screen

At startup operating system the first thing you see is the lock screen. This is a window where you can get some information from applications against a beautiful background. The lock window has the following features:

• shows time, weather and other information from applications; what information will be displayed in this window depends on the specific settings;
• provides primary protection of the system - to enter, you must enter a password in the lock window;
• allows you to customize the wallpaper of the window itself, including making an automatic change of images; bright and nice-looking picture on the lock screen will help the user to tune in to a pleasant working day.

The lock screen is present natively in every Windows 10 system. Therefore, the only question is how to set it up correctly.

How to customize the Windows 10 lock screen

The lock screen has quite flexible settings that allow you to make it convenient to work with, and also have good tools for customizing it. appearance... And, of course, you can simply turn off the lock screen if necessary.

Turn on the lock screen

The lock screen in Windows 10 is always on by default. You can enable the lock screen pattern as follows:

After completing these steps, the lock screen will work as expected and will return to it. background picture.

Video: Customize your lock screen and personalize

Image change

You can install absolutely any images on your lock screen. Someone places there photographs of loved ones, others put beautiful views nature. And this setting is performed in the following way:

1. Navigate to the Personalization Settings menu via Windows Options.

   Go to the personalization menu via Windows settings

2. Go to the lock screen settings section and click “Browse” under the row of pictures.

   Click on the "Browse" button to select an image for the lock screen

3. Select one or several photos (if you select several, they will change automatically) and press "Select pictures" to confirm the action.

   Highlight the required image and click "Select Image"

4. Your image will appear in the lock screen wallpaper preview area.

   You can see how the selected image will look as a background in the preview window

5. You can also set the dynamic change of pictures. To do this, in the drop-down list of the "Background" item, select the line "Slideshow".

   Select "Slideshow" as the type of background image so that the pictures are constantly changing one after another

6. Slideshow mode has a number of additional settings... To see them, click on the corresponding line.

   Select " Extra options slide show "to customize the change of images

7. In the advanced parameters, you can change the settings based on your interests and needs. After you save your changes, the wallpaper or pattern settings are complete.

   Configure slideshow settings in the advanced settings window

You can add an image to the lock screen in another way, without opening the personalization settings. For this:

1. Open the drawing with standard program view images.
2. In the program menu, select "Install as", then left-click on the "Install on lock screen" option.

In the menu of any image viewer, you can select the option to set the pattern to the lock screen

Enabling Windows Highlights

There is another interesting feature associated with the lock screen. It's Windows Highlights or Windows spotlight. When this option is activated, pictures on the lock screen will be selected automatically from servers Microsoft... The option can be enabled as follows:

Now the pictures will change every time you turn on the computer and are selected by an intelligent system for analyzing your work at the device.

Adding display apps

The lock screen allows you to add many applications - it can display the time, weather, exchange rates and much more. Setting up this feature is easy:

The next time you see the lock screen, the new app will already be displayed on it.

Displaying applications on the lock screen will allow you to get the information you need even before you directly start working on your computer. This will save you time and increase efficiency.

Setting up automatic blocking

The automatic lock function is that after a certain period of inactivity of the computer, the lock screen is displayed. Configurable Automatic blocking in the following way:

Disable the lock screen

Disabling the lock screen completely is not easy. There are 2 ways to do this.

First, let's take a look at how to disable the lock screen using an editor. group policy:

1. Press the Win + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run window. Then enter the command gpedit.msc and click OK.
   

   Enter the gpedit.msc command in the Run window

2. Open the folders "Computer Configuration", "Administrative Templates", "Control Panel", "Personalization" one by one.
3. On the right side of the window, select the setting to prevent the display of the lock screen.

   Find the option "Prevent displaying the lock screen" in the Group Policy Editor window

4. Turn on the blocking of the display of the lock screen using the appropriate marker.

   Turn on the option to prevent the display of the lock screen

5. After restarting your computer, you should be able to verify that the lock screen no longer appears.

The second way to disable the lock screen is through the Registry Editor. Always remember that only experienced users should be allowed to make changes to the registry. You should not open the Registry Editor if you are unsure of your knowledge, as changes to the registry can damage your computer. To turn off the lock screen, you need to take the following steps:

1. Open a Run window, but this time type regedit and click OK.
   

   Enter the command regedit in the Run window and confirm the entry

2. In the registry editor, go to the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Policies - Microsoft - Windows - Personalization. Create a 32 bit parameter.

   Create a parameter named NoLockScreen in Registry Editor

3. Set the name to NoLockScreen and set the value to hexadecimal unit.

   Specify unit as value when creating parameter

4. After restarting your computer, the lock screen will disappear completely.

If you need to get your lock screen back, just turn off the Group Policy service you turned on earlier. If you performed a shutdown via the registry, you need to delete the parameter you created.

Video: how to turn off the lock screen

Removing the lock screen

If disabling the lock screen is not entirely satisfactory, you can remove it completely from your computer. To do this, it is enough to delete the application that is responsible for it. Follow path C: - Windows - SystemApps and delete the Microsoft.LockApp_cw5n1h2txyewy folder.

You can simply delete the application folder to make it stop working

Instead of deleting the application folder, you can simply change its name. This will allow you to get your lock screen back if you need it.

Customizing the lock screen: possible problems and solutions

Let's take a look at the problems you may have when customizing your lock screen:

Programs for customizing and changing the lock screen

There are several programs for customizing your lock screen. Usually they are used either to turn off the screen itself, or to adjust the background image. Let's highlight some of them:

• Windows 10 Logon Background Changer is a program that allows you to change the background of your lock screen. It works without installation on a computer and is very easy to use (there is a version in Russian). It is enough to select a picture and the background image will be changed;

Personalization in Windows - customizing the design of the operating system to suit your individual (personal) tastes and needs. In accordance with their preferences, the user changes the theme, color, desktop background, sounds, screensaver, font size, avatar, etc. on his computer.

The combination of images, colors, sounds, screensavers is called a theme. There are already ready-to-use themes on your computer, you can create and customize a theme as you like.

In this article, we will get acquainted with the personalization settings in Windows 10, you will find out where you can download official Microsoft themes and wallpapers (backgrounds) for the Desktop, how to install or remove a theme from a computer where themes are stored on a computer, how to extract the desired image from a theme.

Personalization settings can be accessed from the Start menu. Select Options and then Personalization. It is even easier to enter the settings as follows: right-click on the free area of ​​the monitor screen, and in context menu select "Personalization".

Personalization in Windows 10

In the "Personalization" window, in the "Background" tab, select an image for the desktop background. The following options are available for displaying the background:

• Photo - a separate image is used as a background
• Solid color - the selected color will be used as the background
• Slideshow - background images will change at regular intervals

When choosing one of the options, you will need to make settings: select a photo, select a background color, select albums for a slideshow. In each case, select the desired settings. Here you can select the position of the background: "fill", "fit", "stretch", "tile", "center", "expand".

In the "Colors" tab, select the main color for the appearance of Windows. In the settings, you can enable automatic selection of the main background color, change the color display options in the Start menu, on the taskbar and in the Notification Center.

In the "Lock Screen" tab, you can configure the background that will be displayed on the monitor screen when the computer is locked. There are three options for displaying the lock screen background here: Windows Highlights, Photos, Slideshow.

From the Themes tab, you go to the theme options, and related options: Advanced sound options, Desktop icon options, Mouse pointer options.

We will discuss the theme parameters in detail later. If necessary, adjust the sound settings, mouse pointer settings. Enter Desktop Icon Options.

In the Desktop Icon Options window, select the icons you want to display on the Desktop, and then click OK. In order to remove an icon from the Desktop, uncheck the box opposite the corresponding icon, and then click on the "OK" button.

In the "Start" tab you can configure the settings of the "Start" menu. The user chooses the settings according to his preferences: the number of tiles displayed, the display of recommendations, the order in which applications are displayed, etc.

Saving a theme on Windows

Open the "Themes" tab click on "Theme Options". This will open the "Personalization" window. Here you will see the default themes and the themes you added. Windows 10 has three default themes: Windows, Windows 10, Flowers. To activate a theme on your computer, click on the corresponding theme.

If the theme is named "Unsaved Theme", click on the "Save Theme" link to save and name the theme.

How to download themes

Users find themes and wallpapers for the Desktop on the Internet, many do not even suspect that you can download Microsoft themes and wallpapers from the official website of the corporation. The official themes and wallpapers can be found on the Personalization Gallery page. In the personalization gallery you will find themes, desktop backgrounds, language packs.

On the site big choice topics. Topics are collected in selections: "Animals", "Art (drawings)", "Art (photographs)", "Cars", "Games", "Holidays and seasons", "Films", "Natural wonders", "Locations and landscapes "," Plants and flowers "," Branded themes "," From the community "," Panoramic (for two monitors) "," With custom sounds "," Windows 7 compatible "," New Windows compatible ".

You can download and install any theme from this collection on your computer. Windows users 7 can download and install many of the themes from the Microsoft Gallery on your computer that support this operating system.

Enter the appropriate selection, select a topic, click on the link "More". Here you will see detailed information about the topic: the number of images in this topic, the color of the window, an example of the image on the computer screen. View all the images included in the theme, if the theme suits you, download the theme to your computer.

How to delete a theme on Windows

If you no longer need this theme, you can delete the theme from your computer. The topic to be deleted must not be active at the time of deletion. Move the mouse cursor over the topic, right-click on the topic, and then click on "Delete topic".

How to download wallpaper

In the Personalization Gallery window, go to the Desktop Backgrounds tab. Wallpapers (backgrounds) are combined into sets of images: "Animals", "Art (drawings)", "Art (photographs)", "Cars", "Games", "Holidays and seasons", "Natural wonders", "Locations and landscapes ”,“ Plants and flowers ”,“ Branded wallpapers ”,“ From the community ”,“ Panoramas ”,“ All wallpapers ”.

After clicking on the picture, the image will be expanded. You can save the image you like to your computer for use as a desktop background.

Any image can be used on a computer as a desktop wallpaper. To do this, right-click on the image, and in the context menu, select "Set as desktop background".

Where are Windows 10 themes stored?

The default themes are stored on your computer in the "Web" folder. In order to get into this folder, follow the following path (this is the place where the standard desktop wallpaper is stored windows desktop 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7):

C: \ Windows \ Web

In the "Web" folder, you will find three folders: "4K", "Screen", "Wallpaper". The "4K" folder contains the official Windows 10 splash screen in different resolution... The Screen folder contains images used for the lock screen saver. In the "Wallpaper" folder, there are folders with three official themes, which store the images that are part of these themes.

If you liked a particular image from the theme and would like to use that image as your Desktop background, you can copy the image to another location and then set that image as your Desktop background.

The themes downloaded by yourself to your computer are stored elsewhere. There are two ways to extract a single image from such a theme.

The first way. Unpack a theme that has been downloaded but not yet installed on your computer using an archiver such as WinRAR or 7-Zip. In the folder you will find all the images included in the theme.

Second way. The images included in the theme already installed on your computer can be found in the folder named after the theme, which is located in the following path:

C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Themes \

Where are the lock screen wallpapers stored

You can find standard lock screen background images in the Screen folder. If Windows Highlights is selected in the lock screen background settings, Windows 10 downloads images from the Internet to your computer. These images can be used not only as a lock screen saver, but also as a desktop background.

Downloaded images that are used as the background of the lock screen are located along the following path:

C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy \ LocalState \ Assets

The Assets folder contains files downloaded to your computer. Copy the file from this folder to comfortable spot on your computer. Next, rename the file, give the file some name with the extension ".jpg", for example, "picture.jpg".

After that, you can use this image as your Desktop background.

Conclusions of the article

The user can customize the design of the operating room Windows systems 10 to suit your individual needs. These settings are called personalization. From the official site you can download and install Microsoft themes and wallpapers on your computer. You can use any image included in the theme as your desktop wallpaper.

Personalizing Windows 10 How to Download Microsoft Themes and Wallpapers (Video)

Users of the Windows 10 operating system are very fond of the new interface, which amazes with its bright extraordinary pictures when you turn on the computer and lock the screen. The images automatically change every day, but the OS itself chooses the frequency of changing the images when the screen is locked. This does not always suit you, and some users want to customize their settings.

Also, users are aware of cases when the OS itself installs the same image every day. Or two of a large number of pictures stop changing for a long time, and you have to wait until Windows 10 itself selects a new picture. And you cannot know when it will happen. This situation can be corrected in several simple ways on your own by changing the parameters in the system settings.

Lock screen

The easiest method is to select pictures from the available list, which are offered directly by the OS.

1. You need to click on the camera icon on the PC / laptop monitor (upper right corner).
2. Windows 10 will ask the question: "Did you like what you saw?" Answer "Don't like it."
3. The following picture will be presented for your choice. Answer "Dislike" to all bad images.
4. The operating system will automatically select screensavers to your liking.

WINDOWS: interesting

In all Windows versions 10 users have access to an informative Windows service: interesting. It works as follows: during the demonstration of images downloaded from the Internet, you can select the pictures you like and, conversely, highlight those that you do not like. In the future, the OS will show you only the photos you like, as well as search for images on the Internet that match your interests.

The second method is a little more complicated, but the result will be much more interesting.

It is worth noting that all the images are interesting, beautiful and of high quality. For this, OS developers select best work famous photographers and add them to their databases. Each user will be able to customize the photo series to their liking.

Replacing standard images with personal photographs

In the same way, you can easily set your favorite photos on your PC / laptop lock screen. To do this, follow a series of simple steps below.

We examined the most common ways to change pictures on the lock screen of a PC / laptop. After completing all the steps in stages, you can easily change any images and photos whenever you want. Also you learned about additional features settings of the interface of the tenth version of Windows OS, which will make working with a PC / laptop even more pleasant for you and your whole family.

Let me show you where to find images from Windows Spotlight in Windows 10 - I'm sure many users are using this function automatically changing the picture on the lock screen of your computer would not mind saving a couple of stunningly beautiful photos from there.

My beloved wife, as often happens, pushed me to this article. Yesterday she really liked the next image on the computer lock screen from "Windows: Interesting" and thanks to "You are a geek" I voluntarily and forcibly learned how to fish out these photos from the wilds of the Windows 10 operating system (by the way, in two ways).

Windows: interesting

For those who did not know in the tank - v latest version operating systems it is possible, in addition to photos and slideshows, to install on the computer lock screen automatically changing images, which (if I'm not mistaken - once a day) are downloaded from the manufacturers' servers.

Where and how Windows Spotlight turns on

To begin with, I'll show you where this whole thing comes in. Through we go to Control Panel System "parameters" ...

... and dive into the "Personalization" section ...

There, in the item "Lock screen", the periodic change of images described in this article is installed ...

This "yummy" in Windows 10 won the general love of users with beautiful images and always unexpected wow effect the next time you start your computer.

Where are the Windows Highlights images stored?

First, you need to enable the display hidden folders(elements) in inline file manager through the menu item "View" in any window ...

Next, go to system disk(usually this is the "C" drive) and poke at the "Users" folder. We find there a directory under the username of your computer, where we need a semi-transparent folder "AppData". The folder "Local" in which "Packages" lives is already hiding in it. Carefully click on it and look for a folder with a long name "Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy" ...

Not tired yet? Just a couple of "steps" are left - in the "LocalState" folder ...

... you will find the "Assets" folder ...

... in which ours will be from the lock screen ...

Such is long path to the treasured folder…

Don't worry, the previews of images (thumbnails) have not broken in Explorer - you just need to copy all the files from this folder (for example, to a new folder on your desktop) ...

... and rename them one by one ...

... giving the extension ".jpg" ...

Hallelujah…

Now you can safely run any image viewer and use it to choose the most beautiful masterpieces.

Some images will be in portrait orientation - this is for Windows 10 Mobile, if you happy owner of a smartphone with this shell and use one account on multiple devices.

You will also see square icons for some games and applications from the Windows Store - just ignore them.

A quick way to grab images from Windows Highlights

There is another, more quick way remove images from "Windows: Interesting" in Windows 10 - using a special script written by kind people and posted on the network. It doesn't do anything terrible, viral or spyware - just with one click it gets all the images from "Windows: Interesting" and copies them to your desktop ...

... already renamed ...

Script for extracting pictures from Windows Spotlight