Windows 10: Where is the custom lockscreen image saved at?

Some years ago I added a picture as my lockscreen image and it synced with my microsoft account.Now I want to copy that image file so that I don't lose it and safely change my lockscreen image.I have looked online for a solution but all of them only talked about the spotlight images.Tools like winaero tweaker offer similar solutions, but only for the spotlight images and the wallpaper, not the lockscreen image.

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Lockscreen image save to pc

I had an image that I saved as my screen wallpaper as well as lockscreen image. The thing is when I last update windows 10 my wallpaper turned black. I still have the image in lockscreen. But I have deleted image source from my laptop. How do I get the same
picture back. I am not asking to recover the file. All I need is the path where lockscreen image I see right now is stored. So I can copy it and use it again.

Thanks

PS : I have already tried

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

 

Custom lockscreen image on creator's update

Hey guys,

So I have a GPO set for our workplace, and have been using this since the original RTM build of Windows 10 back in 2015.

It worked fine on all versions up until the Creator's Update, when it somehow seems to have stopped working, and I can't figure out how to fix it!

It's a two-part process. I have one "preference" set for first user login to copy an image from our SMB network share to the Public Pictures folder (it had to be somewhere they had write access to but was also not going to get in the way or accidentally deleted), as C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Lockscreen.jpg (where Lockscreen is the name of our company, but you get the idea.)

Then, I used this GPO:
Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel/Personalization -> Force a specific default lock screen and logon image.

I enabled that, and gave it the location to the JPG file I copied via the first step.

The result is that as soon as I join the domain using the computer's local account, the default lockscreen picture goes away, and just shows a solid blue color instead.

Prior to the Creator's update, the first time any domain user logs on, that picture is copied and the setting works correctly - it shows our nice 3D rendered company logo on all the PCs, whether it's the lock screen or the user logon screen.

However - with the Creator's update, it somehow went back to the default image instead! And here's the really weird part... the GPO is still applied, and in Personalization, I see the custom picture selected! It just doesn't actually show it! The file is copied to the correct path, Windows is just ignoring it when I lock the screen or log out.

I can change to one of the other default pictures, and THAT one will show. But as soon as I try to pick the custom one again, it goes back to that default picture.

I can confirm all new installs of build 1703 do this, not just one specific machine. Now, what's interesting is, if I go into personalization and set a custom lock screen (for testing purposes I placed the image on my desktop instead), then DELETE the picture, the lockscreen is still there, despite the fact I deleted the file.

So this leads me to think it's being cached somewhere, and Windows just isn't caching my new image over the original one that was already there before the domain join. It honestly sounds more like a bug than anything, but does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?

As a manual workaround I can just create a copy of the file elsewhere, and set it as a "custom" lock screen under Personalization (the key to this GPO is that it uses the custom picture as the *default*, which essentially hides that default picture and shows mine instead), but I'd rather not do that if I don't have to.

 

How to save Spotlight Lockscreen images

Hi,

To address your concern, you may check this
link on how to save Windows 10 Spotlight Lockscreen images with PowerShell. Or, you may direct them to this forum.

Let us know if you need any further assistance.