Hi i really like the current lock screen wallpaper the one you see before you click and the password screen shows up and i want to set it as my desktop wallpaper but i can t find it.
Windows 10 login screen background location.
By default windows 10 stores your wallpaper images in the c windows web directory.
Where is it located.
Windows 10 comes with beautiful pictures for the desktop background and lock screen.
You can configure the sign in screen background you want on the lock screen settings page too.
Set a custom login background.
Select windows spotlight for an automatically changing selection of images from microsoft or select picture or slideshow to choose your own preferred background image.
Windows keeps these windows 10 lock screen photos buried deep in a hidden directory but with a bit of digging you can find them save them and even use them as desktop wallpaper.
As you can see from above image windows 10 allows you to use the following 3 types of lock screen backgrounds.
In the right pane click on the down arrow under background section and select the type of background that you want to use.
Location of windows 10 lock screen wallpapers.
If you want to find the location of these images on disk you can use them as wallpapers on other pcs and devices you just have to read this article.
We especially like the background image used for windows 10 may 2019 update.
The image you select here will appear as both your lock screen background and sign in screen background.
The directory will pop right up.
Windows 10 saves a copy of these images so even if you accidentally delete the original image you don t lose your desktop background.
To use a custom login background in windows 7 you ll need to take two steps.
You can access this directory very simply by clicking in the search bar in the windows 10 task bar and type c windows web and hitting return.
To change the sign in background to a custom image you ll need to grab a third party tool named windows 10 login image changer.
And again we suggest reading our guide for the full instructions.