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OEMs can add new lock screen background images for the lock screen and also set the default lock screen background.

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Limitations and restrictions:

  • The lock screen backgrounds included by Microsoft shall not be removed, moved, or altered.

  • The user can modify the default lock screen background by selecting a new photo from the Photos application or by changing the lock screen background settings.

  • Lock screen background images must be in .JPG, .JPEG, or .PNG format.

Constraints: FirstVariationOnly

Instructions:

Adding more lock screen backgrounds
OEMs can provide a set of images to complement the Backgrounds album. The set of images will be available to end-users to select as a lock screen background when the user selects the Sample images background provider in the Lock screen settings screen and launches the photo picker. The images will be appended to the end of the backgrounds album. Although there is no limit to the number of additional lock screen backgrounds, we recommend that partners add no more than 26 backgrounds.

To add a set of lock screen backgrounds:

  1. Create a customization answer file using the contents shown in the following code sample.

    If you are setting the default lock screen background in addition to adding a set of lock screen backgrounds, see Setting the default system lock screen background after this section.

  2. Specify an Owner.

  3. Add additional lock screen backgrounds by adding more Asset elements.

    • Set the asset's Name to Wallpapers.

    • Set Source to the full path to the lock screen background source file on your development machine. For example: C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits10OEMCustomizationAssetsAdditionalLockScreenBackgroundsImage1.jpg.

Setting the default system lock screen background
OEMs can set an image to be the default system lock screen background and this supersedes the default device system lock screen background. This image will be shown during the following scenarios:

  • During first boot, unless device restore overrides the image with a backed up image.

  • When Sample images is selected as the Background in the Lock screen settings screen and no custom image is assigned.

  • During any error condition when the lock screen API fails to set the image and the system rolls back to the default system image.

Cultura profetica apple music youtube. The default lock screen image can be one of the images supplied as the default lock screen background set to be shown on the photo picker. We recommend that the default lock screen background image also be part of the set.

To configure the default lock screen background:

  1. Create a customization answer file using the contents shown in the following code sample or use the sample AdditionalLockScreenBackgrounds.xml file.

  2. Specify an Owner.

  3. Set the DefaultWallpaper value to the file name of the image that you want to set as the default lock screen. For example, Image1.jpg.

  4. Use the customization answer file to create your custom OS image.

Testing:

  1. Flash an OS image that contains this customization to a phone.

  2. If you added more lock screen backgrounds:

    1. Go to Lock screen settings screen.

    2. Make sure the Background setting is set to Sample images.

    3. Select Browse and verify that your additional lock screen backgrounds have been appended at the end.

  3. If you set the default lock screen background:

    1. Turn off the phone then turn it on again.

    2. Verify that the lock screen background matches the image that you set as the default lock screen.

Related topics

Customization answer file overview](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/mobile/mcsf/customization-answer-file)

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There is another question on here that allows users to find the path to their current background image through a cmd command.

In Windows 10 this no longer works. It only returns the first image in the folder, it does not change with the backgrounds as they transition. I need a similar command that returns the path(s) to the current image on the desktop background(s) that actually works in Windows 10 if one exists.

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A copy of the current wallpaper can be found by typing the below path in Windows File Explorer address bar.

Path 1 -
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesCachedFiles

If you don’t find a copy of your current desktop background image here, try below path instead.

Path 2 -
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesTranscodedWallpaper

Note: The file TranscodedWallpaper in Path 2 does not have a file extension. Use 'Open With' or 'How do you want to open this file?' dialogue box and select any image viewer, such as, 'Windows Photo Viewer', 'Honeyview' or the 'Photos' app.

Note for Windows 10: The above locations have limitations. For example, if the wallpaper you’re looking for is no longer visible in the ‘Background’ tab in the Settings app, you can’t recover it. It will work for your last five wallpapers but nothing older. (Source)

Default Windows wallpapers can be found in

%SystemRoot%Web

You will see 3 folders

  • '4K' for 4K wallpapers,
  • 'Screen' for lock screen backgrounds, &
  • 'Wallpapers' for Default Windows wallpapers

Installed themes (Aero, etc):

Per-user installed themes (including pre-installed from OEM):

If you are looking for the location of Lock Screen images - visit this SuperUser question.

Personally, I use John's Background Switcher to manage my desktop background.

John's Background Switcher has an option to view the current/previous desktop background (set by the app itself). Follow below steps -

  1. Right click on the tray icon and select View Current Picture and the current desktop background opens in Windows Photo Viewer (or your default image viewer).
  2. In Windows Photo Viewer, you can right click on the image & select Open File Location to view the original location of current desktop background in windows File Explorer.

To activate Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10 visit this article on HowToGeek

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I have Windows 10, version 1709. One of the other answers got me looking in the registry and I found exactly what I needed in clear text at

HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopWallPaper

No decoding needed.

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Windows 8 and 10 still store the original path of the current background image - rather than the cached / transcoded file as in xypha's answer:

Microsoft doesn't want things to be easy though: this isn't plain text so you have to decode it from binary.

The Winhelponline website has compiled a couple of scripts (VBA and PowerShell) which can print the image name, and launch Explorer to point to the image file.

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To get the 'Transcoded' PATH in cleartext, do this in PowerShell:

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You don't explain exactly what you want to achieve, so I can give some tips here based on a guess: you want to change your wallpaper in certain conditions (for example, one wallpaper every time you restart your computer) or to use a custom file as wallpaper.

In Windows 7 the wallpaper was usually found in %AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesTranscodedWallpaper.
In Windows 10 you will find it in %AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesCachedFiles.

You can also interrogate the registry at

but note the warnings below about programs that are NOT writing a file to disk!

If you want to build your own CMD script, this might be unreliable IF you set the wallpaper not from Windows but from an external program. For example, if I see a nice image in my browser, I set it as wallpaper directly from there. Same for IrfanView. I can easily name another 10 popular programs that could change the wallpaper to a custom path.

Note that some programs are changing the wallpaper without actually writing a file to disk. This can be done by hooking to the Microsoft Windows Desktop window and drawing directly on its canvas. This is how GIF/AVI animations are drawn on desktop.

There is another issue if you build your own script: How to you handle images that don't have same aspect ratio as your desktop, or when desktop resolution changes?

The solution (if I guessed your problem correctly) would be to use a program like John's Background Switcher or BioniX Desktop Background Changer. The latter is much more customizable and can be controlled via command line. It also has auto-detection to detect the best way to resize the image (fill/fit/tile). BioniX can also draw GIF without writing anything to disk (as explained above).

A even better way would be to use the 'Lock on folder' option. Set BioniX to change your wallpaper every 60 seconds (don't worry, you won't see a new wallpaper every 60 seconds since you will use only one file). Set BioniX to lock on any folder (let's say C:Wallpapers). Inside that folder you put a single file called something like My Wallpaper.jpg. BioniX will use that file as wallpaper every 60 seconds. Now, every time you want to change the wallpaper you replace the old My Wallpaper.jpg with your new file. BioniX will see the change you have done to the folder and apply the new file (within 60 seconds).

Let us know what you want to achieve with your script to get a better solution.

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