Saving Wallpapers

[RonJohn]

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?

[Midknyte]

check the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes folder for your custom wallpaper

[RonJohn]

The only file in there is a picture of ice floes I've never seen before named TranscodedWallpaper.jpg

[Midknyte]

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?

[RonJohn]

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

[Midknyte]

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.

[RonJohn]

OK. Thanks for your help, Midknyte.

[Train]

http://superuser.com/questions/20785...r-in-windows-7

    %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.

[General Winters]

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