How to download Windows 10 lock screen image from Spotlight to your device

Windows Spotlight is a new feature on Windows 10, allowing users to download and use the daily featured photos from the Bing Images for use as a lock screen, besides you can vote, comment on the picture.

In the upper right hand corner of the screen, you can show your favorite by picking up your finger (showing your preference) or your finger down with the image currently displayed. If you don't like it, the picture will disappear. If you like, a similar image will appear next time.

This feature is pretty good, so you can change the regular lock wallpaper automatically, along with the best photos.

In the process of using Spotlight, if you like certain images and you want to use them on other computers, you can download and save them by doing the following.

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How to download the images that appear in the Windows 10 lock screen

Save the Windows 10 Spotlight lock screen image to your device

First open File Explorer and then find your Home Folder folder, such as C: Usersusername .

Here you select the View tab, then check the Hidden Items box to display all hidden folders on your computer.

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Steps to save images appear in Windows 10 lock screen

Next, find and open the AppData folder .

Here you navigate by the path:

LocalPackagesMicrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewyLocalStateAssets

Here you will see files with quite strange names and no extensions.

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Your task is to copy all these files to a folder on any drive that you feel comfortable using. In this case we copied the files in drive G.

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After you've finished copying the files, press Shift + right-click on any space in the File Explorer and select Open Command Prompt Here .

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After the Command Prompt window appears, copy the command line below into the window:

Ren *. * * .Jpg

Note: Add the ".jpg" extension to add the extension to all files in the destination directory.

After completing the renaming process, on the screen you will see Lock Screen wallpapers, e file caching , thumbnails .

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Some files that you just renamed have both file cache, thumnails, . so you can delete these files. Use Ctrl + left click to select multiple files located in different locations to delete at the same time.

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Note: Some images are in vertical form, not horizontal and so you may need to copy and paste them into another folder to use on the phone.

If you don't want to use the Command Prompt, you can download any Rename Utility like Bulk Renaming Utility to your device and install it.

After installation is complete, open the application, navigate to the folder, select all files and then add the ".jpg" extension .

If you are lazy to download manually, you can download the full Windows Spotlight here.

Refer to some of the following articles:

4 simple ways to disable (turn off) Action Center on Windows 10
Instructions to turn off ads on the Screen Lock screen Windows 10
Fix the problem of opening the Download folder on Windows 10 too slowly

Good luck!

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Lesley Montoya

Update 26 May 2019

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