We know how to find the Photo shot location of a desktop background for current theme in Windows 7, for that, we’ve to visit this path and hover over on the image: Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\desktop background.
If you’ve installed any themes in Windows 10 by visiting Personalization gallery, the above path opens Background in Personalization in Settings app, which like in Windows 7, doesn’t show the wallpapers for to us hover over and see Windows 10 theme wallpaper location information.
- Don’t worry! We can still able to find that, but it takes a little bit of digging.
- First, you should know, themes installed (not default ones that comes with Windows 10) from Personalization gallery will be installed to : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes or paste this in Explorer or Run dialog to reach there: %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
You need to visit the above mentioned path on Windows 10, and open a theme folder, and desktop background folder underneath that, make sure the photo is not selected, hover the image with mouse pointer to see a tooltip showing summary, the last line it, Title shows the photo taken place information.
For more details, right click on it and select Properties and click Details tab.
Well, I really had work at figuring out that i needed to start with my userid but when i figured that out, i spent over half an hour trying to find the DEFAULT pictures windows uses for screen savers on my signon — no luck. I get as far in the file directory as …Windows/Themes but the only 2 folder choices there, are Custom and oem. No ‘footpaths’ or ‘default’… I finally realized that these instructions ONLY show the themes i have installed. All i wanted to do was learn where the stupid DEFAULT pictures were taken! is that too much to ask???
Go to the picture in your theme you want to find out then right click and go to properties. Select details and the very first one will tell you the location of where the pic was taken.
EDIT: Folder path is missing the “USERNAME” part. Replacing USERNAME with your own username, the folder path is supposed to read:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets\
Worked for me! Thanks!
Hallo Maria,
I want the same, location were the picture is taken.
One I can give you.
It is Ronda in spain.
It is the picture with a deep smal canyon, with a bridge and houses.
Seek Ronda and you will see the picture as I discribed
good luck
Jen
One way to try to find where in the world the scenes are is to open a browser at google images and also open the folder where you have saved the images and appended them with .jpg. Then drag and drop them into the search bar and let google find similar images. Sadly often they just turn up the exact same image without any info, but just sometimes you do get to find different photos of the same scene/object and a description of their location and origins. This found me the location of the spectacular shot of the Puente Nuevo, Rhonda, Southern Spain as well as the beautiful Gardena Pass, SouthTyrol, Trentino-AltoAdige, Italy. I found the Diving Bell in Germany by zooming in and reading the sign on the pier: “Ostseebeilbad Zingst” which I learned is located in the Baltic Sea, Germany, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Ruegen, Sellin.
Hi Mary,
fantastic. This was a great answer. It worked perfectly!
Thanks!
Aldo
One of them is an aerial view of Copa Cabana beach in Brasil
There’s a Wikipedia article about this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Spotlight, mentioning a longer list. No source, unfortunately.
i did the same zooming the name of the street and found Victoria Street at Edimburgo,
I know this scene, you are right, it is Victoria Street (which leads down to the Grass Market) in Edinburgh. The picture is of Victoria Terrace.
Wharariki beach new Zealand #payitforward #spreadgoodkarma
Enjoy! :)
Thank you for these tips!
As of 4/27/2017, I found the default background theme images for Windows 10 Enterprise here: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\BackgroundSlideshow\….
Forgive my ignorance, where do you put the address? Thanks.
The one with the kinda pod in the sea is taken on the coast at Zingst in Northern Germany. It’s fab. You can see it from Google Maps/Earth etc and we found it by trying to read the sign on the pier in the photo
I have the “U.S. National Parks” theme up and the Title is blank for all of them. So that’s where it would be if they creators of that Theme or the photo had bothered to fill out that info!
I tried searching for the important part of the file name, in this case “gettyimages-553790113” and it worked!
The location everyone wishes the article mentioned is here: C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
Unfortunately, the images in those folders don’t have descriptions.
Revisiting this, of the 15 images in US Nation, only one has a title, Alaska. And that’s the only info the Details have. I would like to visit some of these locations. I searched for one of the file names and only got the same picture, no metadata. Can someone please fill in some of this info?
On my theme folder I’ve found the images but the location information were not on the pictures. It was the “Mountain Dwellings” theme. The file names were like “02_gettyimages-590973341_super_resized.jpg” so, what I did was enter on Getty Images site (https://www.gettyimages.com/) and typed on the search box the image id (in this case 590973341). It will show you the image or a list of images, you just have to click it and it will open another page with image information.
Hope it helps! :)
They really want to make it hard to find the location, don’t they? I wonder why? It seems like there should be a way to display it.
What I also want to know is how to make the picture change. I’ve been looking at the same mountain tarn (with the photog’s backpack in the foreground) for months.