Hello, now could you also tell us (since no one else seems to say so or know) where to put downloaded “themes” so that you can choose from them in “My Themes” in the Personalization >Themes Settings page
You don’t have to put them somewhere. You have to download and install a theme from the web and it will show up in My Themes.
JL
8 years ago
Hi,
I figured it out, but no one CLEARLY explains how anywhere, so here it goes:
Go to Themes via the Settings >Personalization windows (or via right click Personalization on your desktop) and select More from the internet and install the theme or themes. Note that they are placed on your DESKTOP.
Afterwards, you have to double click the theme (to install the theme), and if you leave your Settings >Personalization> Themes window open you’ll see it is added to the My Themes category.
You do this for each theme you downloaded (if you’ve done more than one) and the last theme you double click will be the one that is applied to your system.
So from there on, if you want to choose another theme, simply select it from My Themes via Settings > Personalization >Themes>My Themes.
And I’m not faulting you, because your site had the closest thing to an answer, but I noticed people searching for a more detailed explanation and I stop looking after six or more forum searches. For a newbie to Windows 10 or any system, theses are the instructions we need, but thanks for answering.
Pablo
7 years ago
I deleted the web folder (C:WindowsWeb windows10), but a custom image always appears. How to delete it? Where is it stored? Thanks
Homa
7 years ago
I am interested to find my Background pictures and I follow the instruction until I reached in the lock screen tab and in Background list, Windows spotlight. I couldn’t find this pictures in C:WindowsWeb ,there is just other pictures, you mentioned before but not the spotlights.
WIN10 themes are in- c:users(user name)appdatalocalMicrosoftwindowsthemes(theme name)desktopbackground
Where you will find the pictures for that theme.
I did not like one pictures in Autumm Co (autumnjapan1.jpg)
which has silly window screens at the side so I edited it an now has just the main garden view – Ha
Richard
7 years ago
My initial windows display was a building above a stream with an overhanging outhouse (!) but it just changed to a different scene. Apparently it changes every so often. I cannot find the jpg showing the initial scene in any of the personality settings. What is changing these scenes automatically and where do they come from ?
malcolm wright
6 years ago
unfortunately, as with so many things microsoft, this just is not true. you can add images to the lock screen, etc. and you can remove them. But, they are not stored in the locations you list. For various reasons, I have an image set as lock screen, which I would like to use elsewhere, There is no way of finding that image even with an extensive detailed file explorer search
Dan
6 years ago
I changed the folder from which WINDOWS selects the backgroundwallpaper images. But now I can’t remember how I did it :-
Would like to know how to do that again.
Animesh Garg
4 years ago
Thanks, i found it. 🙂
Tom Meacham
4 years ago
I want to know the location where the photo was captured. ei ” the Grand Canyon South Rim”.
I also want to know where these pictures are taken. I want to visit some of these awesome locations.
Hopefully someone can answer this.
Joe
3 years ago
Hate them all, with their false colors. The one with the backpack is the worst.
Vivian Pilnachek
3 years ago
I think they should have a space for us computer idiots to store our own wallpaper
Nicki
1 year ago
I have a problem. I have found all these various folders that contain the wallpapers, however I have created a few customs. Now I have deleted the pics and went to backgrounds to choose a different wallpaper, and my custom pics ARE THERE, somewhere, where it says Choose Your pic… I can choose it, but it does not say where it is being stored, which is NOWHERE, because I deleted it. Yet there is an echo somehow, it can still be selected and used although it should no longer even exist! I can’t select it and DELETE, I can only click on it and select it. WHERE is windows storing this echo that I want completely purged?
Hello, now could you also tell us (since no one else seems to say so or know) where to put downloaded “themes” so that you can choose from them in “My Themes” in the Personalization >Themes Settings page
You don’t have to put them somewhere. You have to download and install a theme from the web and it will show up in My Themes.
Hi,
I figured it out, but no one CLEARLY explains how anywhere, so here it goes:
Go to Themes via the Settings >Personalization windows (or via right click Personalization on your desktop) and select More from the internet and install the theme or themes. Note that they are placed on your DESKTOP.
Afterwards, you have to double click the theme (to install the theme), and if you leave your Settings >Personalization> Themes window open you’ll see it is added to the My Themes category.
You do this for each theme you downloaded (if you’ve done more than one) and the last theme you double click will be the one that is applied to your system.
So from there on, if you want to choose another theme, simply select it from My Themes via Settings > Personalization >Themes>My Themes.
And I’m not faulting you, because your site had the closest thing to an answer, but I noticed people searching for a more detailed explanation and I stop looking after six or more forum searches. For a newbie to Windows 10 or any system, theses are the instructions we need, but thanks for answering.
I deleted the web folder (C:WindowsWeb windows10), but a custom image always appears. How to delete it? Where is it stored? Thanks
I am interested to find my Background pictures and I follow the instruction until I reached in the lock screen tab and in Background list, Windows spotlight. I couldn’t find this pictures in C:WindowsWeb ,there is just other pictures, you mentioned before but not the spotlights.
WIN10 themes are in- c:users(user name)appdatalocalMicrosoftwindowsthemes(theme name)desktopbackground
Where you will find the pictures for that theme.
I did not like one pictures in Autumm Co (autumnjapan1.jpg)
which has silly window screens at the side so I edited it an now has just the main garden view – Ha
My initial windows display was a building above a stream with an overhanging outhouse (!) but it just changed to a different scene. Apparently it changes every so often. I cannot find the jpg showing the initial scene in any of the personality settings. What is changing these scenes automatically and where do they come from ?
unfortunately, as with so many things microsoft, this just is not true. you can add images to the lock screen, etc. and you can remove them. But, they are not stored in the locations you list. For various reasons, I have an image set as lock screen, which I would like to use elsewhere, There is no way of finding that image even with an extensive detailed file explorer search
I changed the folder from which WINDOWS selects the backgroundwallpaper images. But now I can’t remember how I did it :-
Would like to know how to do that again.
Thanks, i found it. 🙂
I want to know the location where the photo was captured. ei ” the Grand Canyon South Rim”.
You may be right. 🙂
I also want to know where these pictures are taken. I want to visit some of these awesome locations.
Hopefully someone can answer this.
Hate them all, with their false colors. The one with the backpack is the worst.
I think they should have a space for us computer idiots to store our own wallpaper
I have a problem. I have found all these various folders that contain the wallpapers, however I have created a few customs. Now I have deleted the pics and went to backgrounds to choose a different wallpaper, and my custom pics ARE THERE, somewhere, where it says Choose Your pic… I can choose it, but it does not say where it is being stored, which is NOWHERE, because I deleted it. Yet there is an echo somehow, it can still be selected and used although it should no longer even exist! I can’t select it and DELETE, I can only click on it and select it. WHERE is windows storing this echo that I want completely purged?