W10 start up images

[Nick]

It's a little bit tricky... the place that they are stored can be different on every W10 installation.

The current image name is stored in the LandscapeAssetPath string value of the following registry key:

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lock Screen\Creative

This will return a value similar to:

Code:

C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets\bbf31759163e396cd418f97d0fad3fd54265ce3a2b5b5ad7eb12549ba3f2aa51

Lose the long hexadecimal string at the end and that gives you the directory the images are stored in. for me this is:

Code:

C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

Go to that directory, select all the files, then COPY (not cut!) them to a safe place, e.g. C:\Temp\Assets

Now, open up a cmd shell window, change directory to where you put the files, and rename them all to have a jpg file type.
   

Once you've done that, look at the directory using Windows Explorer, right-click on the column headers and add the column "Dimensions", then sort by that column descending.
   

The 1920x1080 images are the ones you want.

FWIW, the string "cw5n1h2txyewy" is a magic hash of something or other and actually is the same on most W10 installations, but may not stay that way in the future,