Windows 10: How to remove "Learn about this picture" icon and automatic cycling background options...

I have an inactive windows 10 license. I have the "learn about this picture" icon on the desktop that will not go away. Also, I have a background that changes various photos related to the "learn about this picture" nonsense. Is it part of bing? i uninstalled BING. Is this something I enabled? I need the icon gone and the background to return to its default. NOTE: this is an inactivated windows licensethanks

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How to permanently remove “Learn about this picture” icon on my desktop?

Hello Mateo,

You see this Learn more about this picture desktop icon when using Windows Spotlight as your desktop background.

You can use the method in the tutorial below to remove this icon and still be able to use Windows Spotlight.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-o...this-picture-desktop-icon-in-windows-11.7137/

 

Changing the background in Windows 10 from picture foders created on the hard drive?

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response



I would suggest you to try the following steps:

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  Open Desktop Background by right clicking on the desktop clicking Personalization
  
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  Click the picture or color that you want to use for your desktop background.
  
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  If the picture you want to use isn't in the list of desktop background pictures, click an item in the Picture location list to see other categories, or click Browse to search for the picture on your computer.
  When you find the picture that you want, double-click it. It will become your desktop background.
  

Hope this helps.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.