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Saving Wallpapers
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?
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check the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes folder for your custom wallpaper
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The only file in there is a picture of ice floes I've never seen before named TranscodedWallpaper.jpg
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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?
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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
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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.
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OK. Thanks for your help, Midknyte.
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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.
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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