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I have a laptop running Windows 7. I like to find interesting pictures and save them as wallpapers. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to save these pictures so that if I decide to go back to them at some future time, I can reuse them. How do I do this?
check the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes folder for your custom wallpaper
The only file in there is a picture of ice floes I've never seen before named TranscodedWallpaper.jpg
See if there is a C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper folder. They might be in there.
Where are you getting these wallpapers? Are you downloading them first and then setting as wallpaper?
No, I'm just right clicking on them and setting them as wallpaper. The ones in the folder you suggested are all the ones that I can see if I right click on the screen and choose personalize, but none of them are those pictures that I have found and used as wallpaper in the past
Ah. I just tested it and setting the wallpaper through the browser does not create a local copy. I also looked in the IE cache folder (since I used IE to set the wallpaper), but the file wasn't in there either.
Sorry, maybe someone else will have a bright idea.
You should really be downloading them first and then setting as wallpaper if you want to keep them.
OK. Thanks for your help, Midknyte.
http://superuser.com/questions/20785...r-in-windows-7
Code:
%SystemRoot%\Web\Wallpaper (default themes)
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes ( any new themes that you might have installed )
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes ( any other pictures that you might have made as an wallpaper.
If you right clicked a web picture to use as a background while using Firefox, it is saved as a .bmp at C:\Users\AccountName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox