Microsoft has made windows 10 s login screen more visually pleasing than ever by displaying high resolution images in the background akin to the company s bing search engine.
Windows 10 login wallpaper information.
In this guide we ll help you change your windows 10 login background and desktop wallpaper.
Select windows spotlight for an automatically changing selection of images from microsoft or select picture or slideshow to choose your own preferred background image.
Here s how you can find the current desktop background image in windows 10.
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 ve recommended disabling spotlight to get rid of advertising in the past but microsoft hasn t used windows spotlight to push advertisements in quite a while.
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.
The image you select here will appear as both your lock screen background and sign in screen background.
We especially like the background image used for windows 10 may 2019 update.
Windows 10 saves a copy of these images so even if you accidentally delete the original image you don t lose your desktop background.
Microsoft has made changing your background and wallpaper easy.
On windows 95 98 me systems the same desktop is used for users and the login screen so this option has no effect.
You can configure the sign in screen background you want on the lock screen settings page too.
This option is useful only on servers running terminal services.
In the event you do delete the image by accident you can get it back from the copy windows 10 keeps of it.