

Play around with these to see how they each look with your photo. There’s a drop-down box under this panel that asks how you want the photo to be displayed, and each setting does something different. “Picture” is exactly what it sounds like: a picture. There are three options you can choose from the first drop down box here. You’re not going to see much that’s changed here. If you’ve used Windows before, it’s pretty similar to previous versions. “Background” allows you to change the background of your desktop, giving you a different look. You can retrieve all wallpapers from there.How to Customize and Add Themes in Microsoft Windows 10 and Similar Background Any themes you downloaded afterwards are saved in your own user profile in the following location. Note that this folder only stores all default themes that come with Windows 10 installation. But that doesn’t seem to be the case, at least for now, if you look at what’s in that folder. Judging by the name of it, it should be the home for all spectacular images at 4K resolution. Now what is this 4K folder for? I’ve got no idea.

And they are stored in Wallpaper folder like below.Īnd listed in Personalization control panel applet as following: If you haven’t installed any themes, these are 3 themes by default that come with Windows 10. The Wallpaper folder is where all theme’s wallpapers are saved. But you can use the Browse button to pick a picture from your own list. Note that adding more pictures into the folder won’t easily get you to set a different Lock Screen background in Settings, since it only lists the first 5 pictures in Personalization. Here is what you will find out if you go into it.

The Screen folder is where all Lock Screen backgrounds are stored. Open File Explorer (press Win+E), navigate to this folder, and you will see 3 folders there, 4K, Screen, and Wallpaper. Like these beautiful wallpapers and lock screen backgrounds on newly installed Windows 10 computer? Wondering where they are stored on your computer so you can retrieve them for your own use? Let’s find out.Įverything is stored in a single location, the web folder in default Windows installation folder, such as: c:\windows\web
