Windows 10 Lockscreen Pictures Folder Location

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17 Aug, 2020


 A fairly new Windows 10 Lockscreen feature that is exclusively available on devices running Windows 10 is Windows Spotlight which changes the appearance of the lock screen by regularly showing new images. Press the Win + L keys to see what your Windows 10 lockscreen image will look like today.

Windows Spotlight displays beautiful pictures as a lockscreen. Maybe many Windows 10 users want to download or find the location of these images and make them wallpapers.

If you like these lockscreen images, you can download or retrieve them maybe as a desktop background on a computer system running Windows 10 itself or not even Windows 10.

So where are the Windows Spotlight images or lockscreen images located ?

Spotlight pictures are stored (cached) on a device running Windows 10 which means that you can access them in a cache location, or copy the images from there and move them to any other location you want.

Here are the steps to find a lock screen image (Windows Spotlight) in Windows 10.

Open a File Explorer window, quickly use the Win + E shortcut keys, or click the Explorer icon on the taskbar.

Paste the following path into the bar:

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

This will open the image cache. These images have no clear names and have no extensions therefore you will need to rename them and add an extension at the end of the filenames. Can use the .jpg or .png extension.
Select all the images, right click on the selection, and choose copy to copy them to the location you want.

Run command prompt, press Windows key, type cmd.exe and press Enter.

Copy and paste the following command line into the command prompt (change the path to the folder where you saved your Windows Spotlight images, for example, I saved it on drive D in a folder called Wlockscreen (no spaces in the folder name):


Ren D:Wlockscreen\*.* *.jpg

This will open the image cache. These images have no clear names and have no extensions therefore you will need to rename them and add an extension at the end of the filenames. Can use the .jpg or .png extension.

Select all the images, right click on the selection, and choose copy to copy them to the location you want.

Run command prompt, press Windows key, type cmd.exe and press Enter.

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