With Windows 10 now on more than 100 million PCs worldwide, we have covered almost every basic topic including the tutorials and how-to’s on our blog. After learning about the Windows 10 Settings and features, today we are today going to discuss about changing and setting the desktop wallpaper on your Windows 10 PC and the options available. You will learn how to Center, Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile, Span wallpapers in Windows 10.
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It’s really easy and straightforward to change the background image of your Windows 10 desktop. You can set any of your personal picture, an image from Windows or a solid color as your desktop wallpaper. You can also display a slideshow of pictures as your Windows 10 wallpaper.
To start with, you need to open the Personalization settings to change Theme, Lock Screen & Wallpaper on your Windows 10 desktop.
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Select a picture you want for your wallpaper. You can also use the Browse button and select a picture saved in your PC.
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Center, Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile, Span
Once you are done with the selection, scroll down and check the drop-down menu of Choose a Fit. You will get the options like Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile, Center and Span.
- Choosing a Center fit centers your wallpaper on the screen. Smaller images will set with a border on your screen whereas the larger images will display only the center part of the image leaving the rest out of view.
- Choosing a Fill fit will enlarge or shrink the image according to your screen’s width to get a proper fit. The resizing is done with proper related perspective and the smaller images are often stretched in this wallpaper setting. If you select Fit, the wallpaper image will be enlarged or shrunk height wise. Though everything stays in perspective, but large images are ripped off from sides and smaller images are displayed with small borders.
- Choosing the Stretch fit will edit the wallpaper with no perspectives. This setting will stretch the image and fit it on your PC screen but may distort it.
- Tile setting for a wallpaper is meant for the tiny images. This setting sets the multiple tiles of the image on your monitor and suits best to the small texture images.
- Span option will edit the wallpaper from end to end covering your entire screen.
You can set your wallpaper to change after a set time interval. Select the option of Slideshow instead of an image and set the timer from the drop down menu of ‘Change picture every’.
Setting a wallpaper is an integral part of personalizing your Windows 10 experience. Set your favourite image as your wallpaper as it may perk up your mood as soon as you turn your computer ON.
Read:Where are Wallpapers and Lock Screen images stored in Windows 10.
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There is another question on here that allows users to find the path to their current background image through a
cmd
command.
In Windows 10 this no longer works. It only returns the first image in the folder, it does not change with the backgrounds as they transition. I need a similar command that returns the path(s) to the current image on the desktop background(s) that actually works in Windows 10 if one exists.
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A copy of the current wallpaper can be found by typing the below path in Windows File Explorer address bar.
Path 1 -
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesCachedFiles
If you don’t find a copy of your current desktop background image here, try below path instead.
Path 2 -
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesTranscodedWallpaper
Note: The file
TranscodedWallpaper
in Path 2 does not have a file extension. Use 'Open With' or 'How do you want to open this file?' dialogue box and select any image viewer, such as, 'Windows Photo Viewer', 'Honeyview' or the 'Photos' app.
Note for Windows 10: The above locations have limitations. For example, if the wallpaper you’re looking for is no longer visible in the ‘Background’ tab in the Settings app, you can’t recover it. It will work for your last five wallpapers but nothing older. (Source)
Default Windows wallpapers can be found in
%SystemRoot%Web
You will see 3 folders
- '4K' for 4K wallpapers,
- 'Screen' for lock screen backgrounds, &
- 'Wallpapers' for Default Windows wallpapers
Installed themes (Aero, etc):
Per-user installed themes (including pre-installed from OEM):
If you are looking for the location of Lock Screen images - visit this SuperUser question.
Personally, I use John's Background Switcher to manage my desktop background.
John's Background Switcher has an option to view the current/previous desktop background (set by the app itself). Follow below steps -
- Right click on the tray icon and select View Current Picture and the current desktop background opens in Windows Photo Viewer (or your default image viewer).
- In Windows Photo Viewer, you can right click on the image & select Open File Location to view the original location of current desktop background in windows File Explorer.
To activate Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10 visit this article on HowToGeek
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I have Windows 10, version 1709. One of the other answers got me looking in the registry and I found exactly what I needed in clear text at
HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopWallPaper
No decoding needed.
JimJim
Windows 8 and 10 still store the original path of the current background image - rather than the cached / transcoded file as in xypha's answer:
Microsoft doesn't want things to be easy though: this isn't plain text so you have to decode it from binary.
The Winhelponline website has compiled a couple of scripts (VBA and PowerShell) which can print the image name, and launch Explorer to point to the image file.
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To get the 'Transcoded' PATH in cleartext, do this in PowerShell:
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You don't explain exactly what you want to achieve, so I can give some tips here based on a guess: you want to change your wallpaper in certain conditions (for example, one wallpaper every time you restart your computer) or to use a custom file as wallpaper.
In Windows 7 the wallpaper was usually found in
In Windows 10 you will find it in
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesTranscodedWallpaper
.In Windows 10 you will find it in
%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsThemesCachedFiles
.
You can also interrogate the registry at
but note the warnings below about programs that are NOT writing a file to disk!
If you want to build your own CMD script, this might be unreliable IF you set the wallpaper not from Windows but from an external program. For example, if I see a nice image in my browser, I set it as wallpaper directly from there. Same for IrfanView. I can easily name another 10 popular programs that could change the wallpaper to a custom path.
Note that some programs are changing the wallpaper without actually writing a file to disk. This can be done by hooking to the Microsoft Windows Desktop window and drawing directly on its canvas. This is how GIF/AVI animations are drawn on desktop.
There is another issue if you build your own script: How to you handle images that don't have same aspect ratio as your desktop, or when desktop resolution changes?
The solution (if I guessed your problem correctly) would be to use a program like John's Background Switcher or BioniX Desktop Background Changer. The latter is much more customizable and can be controlled via command line. It also has auto-detection to detect the best way to resize the image (fill/fit/tile). BioniX can also draw GIF without writing anything to disk (as explained above).
A even better way would be to use the 'Lock on folder' option. Set BioniX to change your wallpaper every 60 seconds (don't worry, you won't see a new wallpaper every 60 seconds since you will use only one file). Set BioniX to lock on any folder (let's say
C:Wallpapers
). Inside that folder you put a single file called something like My Wallpaper.jpg
. BioniX will use that file as wallpaper every 60 seconds. Now, every time you want to change the wallpaper you replace the old My Wallpaper.jpg
with your new file. BioniX will see the change you have done to the folder and apply the new file (within 60 seconds).
Let us know what you want to achieve with your script to get a better solution.
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