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    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10


    How to: Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10

    How to Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10


    lock screen background that displays different background images and occasionally offers suggestions on the lock screen from Bing. Windows Spotlight is available in all desktop editions of Windows 10.

    For example, Windows Spotlight will display different backgrounds daily that you can select that you like or don't like to help train the service to show you images you like. You could also see and try previews of other Windows features and experiences to help let you know about them.

    You may wish to save and keep these Windows Spotlight images in a folder on your computer, and use them as your sign-in screen background, etc...

    This tutorial will show you how to find and save the Windows spotlight background images displayed on your lock screen in Windows 10.

    *tip Configure Windows Spotlight on the lock screen | Microsoft Docs


    CONTENTS:
    • Option One: Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images using PowerShell Script
    • Option Two: Manually Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images

    EXAMPLE: Windows spotlight on lock screen

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]







    OPTION ONE [/i] Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images using PowerShell Script
    *note Thank you to Dimitri for providing the PowerShell .ps1 script file.
    1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the PowerShell script.
    Find_Windows_Spotlight_images.ps1

    Download

    Code:
    2. Save the .ps1 file to your desktop.

    3. Unblock the .ps1 file.

    4. Right click or press and hold on the .ps1 file, and click/tap on Run with PowerShell.

    5. You will now have a SpotlightImages folder on your desktop with your 1920 x 1080 Windows Spotlight images saved in it. (see screenshot below)


    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]






    OPTION TWO [/i] Manually Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images
    1. Copy and paste the folder location below in the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter to open the Assets folder.

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]
    Note The folder location below is revealed in the LandscapeAssetPath string value in the registry key below.

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lock Screen\Creative

    *Arrow %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

    2. Select all items in the Assets folder, and copy them all to another folder (ex: %UserProfile%\Pictures) of your choice. (see screenshot below)

    *tip If you like, you can also right click on a file, click/tap on Windows Photo Viewer to view a listed Windows spotlight image.

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    3. Open the folder (ex: %UserProfile%\Pictures) you save the items into, click/tap on the File tab, click/tap on Open Windows PowerShell, and click/tap on Open Windows PowerShell. (see screenshot below)

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    4. Type the commands below into PowerShell one at a time, press Enter after each command, and close PowerShell when finished. This will rename all items in the folder to add the .jpg file extension. (see screenshot below)
    *Arrow cmd

    *Arrow ren * *.jpg


    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    5. Add the Dimensions sort by the Dimensions detail in descending order. (see screenshot below step 6)

    6. You will notice that the Windows spotlight images will have a different dimension for PC and mobile. You can delete the ones you don't want to keep saved. (see screenshot below)

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    7. Here are only the PC 1920 x 1080 Windows spotlight images shown in Extra large icons layout view. (see screenshot below)

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 [​IMG]


    That's it,
    Shawn


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    Brink, Jul 14, 2017
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  2. Rose Cal Win User

    Spotlight

    Hi,

    Windows spotlight is an option for the lock screen background that displays different background images and occasionally offers suggestions on the lock screen. For us to better isolate your concern, we'd like to gather more information:

    • Is there a way for you to provide us a screenshot?
    • Have you made any recent changes before this issue occur?
    • Are you able to use spotlight before?

    Meanwhile, we suggest that you follow these steps to modify Lock screen background to spotlight:

    • Open Settings.
    • Click Personalization and select Lock screen.
    • Under Background, choose Windows spotlight.

    Keep us posted if you need additional help.
     
    Rose Cal, Oct 26, 2019
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    This Windows 10 Tip
    highlights the Windows Spotlight setting, which automatically uploads beautiful images of scenery daily from around the world for the background on the lock screen.

    What steps should I try if I’m having trouble with Windows Spotlight?
    For example, what should I do if:

    • The Windows Spotlight image doesn’t appear on the lock screen.
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    Meliton Dec, Oct 26, 2019
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  4. Solaris17 Win User

    Find and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10

    Windows spotlight images (Lock screen)

    This is really dumb, but if you are like me and use spotlight for your windows lock screen images, I actually tend to like some of them alot. They rotate it seems every few days but it doesn't seem to delete them as often as it gets new ones.

    With that said I couldnt find anything similar online so I made a script that would pull the files from the folder buried in app data that keeps the files. They dont have an extension normally so I append the JPG extension too them.

    I create a folder on your desktop called spotlight and copy the files too it then run the conversion.

    I didn't spend forever on this so be nice but otherwise;

    Enjoy

    Code for the crazies:
    Spoiler Code: @Echo off title Spotlight Image Converter cls :checkPrivileges :: Check for Admin by accessing protected stuff. This calls net(#).exe and can stall if we don't kill it later. NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto menu) else ( goto getPrivileges ) :getPrivileges :: Write vbs in temp to call batch as admin. if '%1'=='ELEV' (shift & goto menu) for /f "delims=: tokens=*" %%A in ('findstr /b ::- "%~f0"') do @Echo(%%A setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set "batchPath=%~0" setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion Echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" Echo UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", "ELEV", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" exit /B :menu Echo Windows 10 Lock screen image converter Echo. Echo Brought to you by Solaris17 of TPU Echo. Echo This will make a folder on your desktop called "Spotlight" Echo. Echo It will copy the lockscreen images to the folder then convert them to JPEG format. Echo. Echo Let me know when you are ready. Echo. Pause goto copy :copy @echo off CLS Echo. Echo Converting and copy in progress... Echo. mkdir %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight > nul 2>&1 timeout 5 >nul robocopy %userprofile%\appdata\local\packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets\ %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight /copyall /E > nul 2>&1 ren %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\* *.jpg > nul 2>&1 Echo Done!! Echo. pause[/quote]
     
    Solaris17, Oct 26, 2019
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  5. Brink Win User
    Brink, Oct 26, 2019
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  6. Solaris17 Win User
    Windows spotlight images (Lock screen)

    I updated this to fix an issue where images already in the folder would be swapped back to no extension making them unreadable again.

    CODE:
    Spoiler Code: @Echo off title Spotlight Image Converter v2 cls :checkPrivileges :: Check for Admin by accessing protected stuff. This calls net(#).exe and can stall if we don't kill it later. NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto menu) else ( goto getPrivileges ) :getPrivileges :: Write vbs in temp to call batch as admin. if '%1'=='ELEV' (shift & goto menu) for /f "delims=: tokens=*" %%A in ('findstr /b ::- "%~f0"') do @Echo(%%A setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion set "batchPath=%~0" setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion Echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" Echo UAC.ShellExecute "!batchPath!", "ELEV", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" "%temp%\OEgetPrivileges.vbs" exit /B :menu Echo Windows 10 Lock screen image converter Echo. Echo Brought to you by Solaris17 of TPU Echo. Echo This will make a folder on your desktop called "Spotlight" Echo. Echo It will copy the lockscreen images to the folder then convert them to JPEG format. Echo. Echo Let me know when you are ready. Echo. Pause goto copy :copy @echo off CLS Echo. Echo Converting and copy in progress... Echo. mkdir "%userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight" > nul 2>&1 mkdir "%userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\Converted" > nul 2>&1 timeout 5 >nul robocopy %userprofile%\appdata\local\packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets\ "%userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight" /copyall /E > nul 2>&1 ren %userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\* *.jpg > nul 2>&1 move "%userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\*.jpg" "%userprofile%\Desktop\Spotlight\Converted" > nul 2>&1 Echo Done!! Echo. pause[/quote]
     
    Solaris17, Oct 26, 2019
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