Windows 10: Where is Wallpaper stored?

I changed the wallpaper on my Preview version and it also changed the wallpaper on my production system. But, I can't find the original wallpaper picture. I found the location for the pictures that come with Win 10, but not my original picture. Surely its in a folder somewhere.

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Screen Lock wallpaper

I set Bing as screen lock wallpaper, every day it set new wallpaper , is old wallpaper save in memory if yes then where?

 

Background Screen

Where Is The Windows 10 Background Screen Wallpaper And Lock Screen Wallpaper Stored?

 

I believe it's in one of the subFolders under Windows. I found it the other day on a Win8.1 machine using File Explorer Search but I knew the name of the image, it had come from a camera. Unfortunately I didn't write down the Folder name, probably was in the WinSXS Folder.

 

I'll take another look, I did a search on the entire drive for *.jpg and it didn't show up. I tried *.bmp and it didn't show up there either.
As I noted, I did find the built in wallpaper, in the Windows folder.

 

I did another search and didn't find the picture. It looks like it is gone.

 

Have a look here. At one point in time you had to show System files to find them, not sure if that is still true.

Where to Find the Windows Wallpaper Location on Your PC

 

Also, you may find what you're looking for in:
C:\Users\{your name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

... copy the transcoded wallpaper files to the desktop and rename them something.jpg

 

TrustMe, I've looked at the location you suggest and they are not there.

Edwin, what is in that folder is only the current wallpaper image, nothing else.

Thanks.

 

Perhaps this is what you need:
C:\Windows\Web
and its subfolders.

 

The missing wallpaper graphic is not in the Web location. That was one of the locations I looked at before posting the thread.
It is apparently gone. I've done a complete drive search of *.jpg and *.bmp and it was not found.

 

These are what's there on mine:





..and this is what I see in Settings



but for my ACTUAL wallpaper I use a wallpaper changer program, with one source being a large folder of fairly carefully chosen pictures against which things show clearly, e.g. limited colour range or suitable landscape, changing when I log on.

 

Hello fireberd, *Smile

If you like, the context menu added by the tutorial below can help you find the location of the current desktop background.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...ws-8-10-a.html

 

Thanks Shawn. All that did was show the background file that was in Firefox. It didn't show any others (??)
I still have it installed, I didn't remove it yet.

However, it helped me find it. The Firefox location was in Roaming. I looked at others in Roaming and found it under Internet Explorer. I had looked at Roaming before but didn't look at the Internet Explorer as I use Edge.

Jack *Biggrin

 

I'm glad it was able to help some Jack. *Smile