Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations. While this could be part of the
huge Globalist Liberal Open-Borders conspiracy to shadowban Conservatives
that support President Trump, I stongly feel that politics should be left
out of subject matter that deals with computers and computing because
pretty soon we will be all one species drinking the Kool-Aid while serving
the will of our mechanical masters anyway.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.

You can disable those screens from Personalize.

Try the Lock Screen section.

https://s15.postimg.cc/tioxd5h0b/lock.gif

*******

A good search engine will find files on your computer.
The File Explorer search is not a good search engine
(the Provider for JPG won't analyze a JPG unless it
has a .jpg extension).

Try the Bash shell.

1) Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
The administrator account may help with permissions.

2) In the Command Prompt window, start "bash"

bash

There are various web pages that detail the steps
to installing bash, if you have no bash on the machine.
Bash is downloaded from the Windows Store, when you
follow the incantation for it (no logins required
or credit cards needed).

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

4) You can redirect the output to a text file like this.
F: is a data disk on my machine.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image' /mnt/f/output.txt

5) When the command completes, open "output.txt" file with
wordpad.exe , and click "Save" to convert it to Windows
compatible line endings. Verify in Notepad, that the text
is now orderly.

6) Once you see some suspiciously named system folders
with large images (1920x1080 res maybe), use Irfanview
to review the folder contents.

HTH,
Paul

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On 09/13/2018 10:35 AM, Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations. While this could be part of the
huge Globalist Liberal Open-Borders conspiracy to shadowban Conservatives
that support President Trump, I stongly feel that politics should be left
out of subject matter that deals with computers and computing because
pretty soon we will be all one species drinking the Kool-Aid while serving
the will of our mechanical masters anyway.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.

I found a few hints. Both seem to give me images. Not sure they are
the ones you are looking for.

C:\windows\web\screen

C:\Users\**yourusername**\AppData\Local\Packages\M icrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_**randomle tters**\LocalState\Assets
Copy the images to somewhere else. Rename them to .jpg
I'm in Linux and since Linux does not use the extension, the images are
already viewable, but you'll have to add the .jpg to all of them to see
them. Some of the stuff is useless but....

Al

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On 2018-09-13 11:29, Paul wrote:

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

Interesting solution; copied to my book of tricks ;-)

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Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

B00ze wrote:
On 2018-09-13 11:29, Paul wrote:

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

Interesting solution; copied to my book of tricks ;-)

It's also possible to do sweeps of a system, using the
inverted search index and a database query. I wrote a
little AWK thing to poke that.

But that depends on a user having the Search Indexer set
up to index all of the hard drive. Which is damn hard
to arrange due to the interface provided. And those
indexing providers trigger off file extension, so you
need properly named files to play games with the stuff.
There would be no leverage for a "12345678" file not
having a proper extension on the end. I'd never find it.

It amounts to doing this kind of thing in a search.

ext:jpg and width:1920

Paul

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On 13/09/18 21:35, Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations. While this could be part of the
huge Globalist Liberal Open-Borders conspiracy to shadowban Conservatives
that support President Trump, I stongly feel that politics should be left
out of subject matter that deals with computers and computing because
pretty soon we will be all one species drinking the Kool-Aid while serving
the will of our mechanical masters anyway.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.

How to Find Windows 10's Spotlight Lock Screen Pictures
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/f...creen-pictures

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:29:35 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.

You can disable those screens from Personalize.

Try the Lock Screen section.

https://s15.postimg.cc/tioxd5h0b/lock.gif

*******

A good search engine will find files on your computer.
The File Explorer search is not a good search engine
(the Provider for JPG won't analyze a JPG unless it
has a .jpg extension).

Try the Bash shell.

1) Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
The administrator account may help with permissions.

2) In the Command Prompt window, start "bash"

bash

There are various web pages that detail the steps
to installing bash, if you have no bash on the machine.
Bash is downloaded from the Windows Store, when you
follow the incantation for it (no logins required
or credit cards needed).

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

4) You can redirect the output to a text file like this.
F: is a data disk on my machine.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image' /mnt/f/output.txt

5) When the command completes, open "output.txt" file with
wordpad.exe , and click "Save" to convert it to Windows
compatible line endings. Verify in Notepad, that the text
is now orderly.

6) Once you see some suspiciously named system folders
with large images (1920x1080 res maybe), use Irfanview
to review the folder contents.

HTH,
Paul

That's not a practical solution for those who have multi-thousand jpg
images already on their system. May be you could help things by not
trying to search the whole system?
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:29:35 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.
You can disable those screens from Personalize.

Try the Lock Screen section.

https://s15.postimg.cc/tioxd5h0b/lock.gif

*******

A good search engine will find files on your computer.
The File Explorer search is not a good search engine
(the Provider for JPG won't analyze a JPG unless it
has a .jpg extension).

Try the Bash shell.

1) Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
The administrator account may help with permissions.

2) In the Command Prompt window, start "bash"

bash

There are various web pages that detail the steps
to installing bash, if you have no bash on the machine.
Bash is downloaded from the Windows Store, when you
follow the incantation for it (no logins required
or credit cards needed).

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

4) You can redirect the output to a text file like this.
F: is a data disk on my machine.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image' /mnt/f/output.txt

5) When the command completes, open "output.txt" file with
wordpad.exe , and click "Save" to convert it to Windows
compatible line endings. Verify in Notepad, that the text
is now orderly.

6) Once you see some suspiciously named system folders
with large images (1920x1080 res maybe), use Irfanview
to review the folder contents.

HTH,
Paul

That's not a practical solution for those who have multi-thousand jpg
images already on their system. May be you could help things by not
trying to search the whole system?

What it did help me do, is it helped me find a
folder with 50000 JPGs in it I forgot to delete :-)

The exercise wasn't all bad.

The image content on my setup dropped from 85000 image files
to about 35000 files.

The purpose of the exercise was to come up with a scheme
that could find image file which have no file extension.
Which is hard to do otherwise.

And you know the hard-to-find ones are in some system
area, but which system area ? Lets ask the computer
to figure that out for us.

Paul

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

WayFarer wrote:

How to Find Windows 10's Spotlight Lock Screen Pictures
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/f...creen-pictures



That did it! Thank you!

(The keyphrase was "lock screen"...) Great find.

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:30:16 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:29:35 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
It seems like each time we have the monthly updates now, the Microsoft
elves are adding new boot screens to package.

My computers are apparently set at default to randomly display artful
photos during bootup - I set them to skip the login routine - then they
boot into my user desktop's background themes.

The point is that for a couple of years the MSFT boot screens remained the
same series then sometime in the last few months, each time after a monthly
update, new boot screens are coming after the updates.

I have tried searching (Google) for where these photos are stored on my
hard drive. I have found where some artwork is stored, but, alas, none of
the new screens reside at those locations.

There are a couple of these photos I would like to capture, copy or rip and
save to use as my own background, if that is legal.

Anybody have an app for that?

Thanks in advance.
You can disable those screens from Personalize.

Try the Lock Screen section.

https://s15.postimg.cc/tioxd5h0b/lock.gif

*******

A good search engine will find files on your computer.
The File Explorer search is not a good search engine
(the Provider for JPG won't analyze a JPG unless it
has a .jpg extension).

Try the Bash shell.

1) Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator.
The administrator account may help with permissions.

2) In the Command Prompt window, start "bash"

bas

--- snip ---

6) Once you see some suspiciously named system folders
with large images (1920x1080 res maybe), use Irfanview
to review the folder contents.

HTH,
Paul

That's not a practical solution for those who have multi-thousand jpg
images already on their system. May be you could help things by not
trying to search the whole system?

What it did help me do, is it helped me find a
folder with 50000 JPGs in it I forgot to delete :-)

The exercise wasn't all bad.

The image content on my setup dropped from 85000 image files
to about 35000 files.

The purpose of the exercise was to come up with a scheme
that could find image file which have no file extension.
Which is hard to do otherwise.

And you know the hard-to-find ones are in some system
area, but which system area ? Lets ask the computer
to figure that out for us.



OK. The computer had to search the whole system but you only had to
search those computer findings from a system area. That certainly is
easier.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

Windows 10 Updates: New Boot Screens
 

On 2018-09-14 01:16, Paul wrote:

B00ze wrote:
On 2018-09-13 11:29, Paul wrote:

3) Now, run the command.

This command should find any file which is an image,
*even if the file has no extension on the end to identify it*.
If a file "12345678" is a JPG, PNG, GIF etc, this finds it.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -i {} \; | grep ': image'

That command is very slow, even on an SSD. Go make a
three course meal in the kitchen, then come back and check.

Interesting solution; copied to my book of tricks ;-)

It's also possible to do sweeps of a system, using the
inverted search index and a database query. I wrote a
little AWK thing to poke that.

You can query the Windows index, like with PowerShell? It's too bad it
ain't that useful to begin with...

But that depends on a user having the Search Indexer set
up to index all of the hard drive. Which is damn hard
to arrange due to the interface provided. And those
indexing providers trigger off file extension, so you
need properly named files to play games with the stuff.
There would be no leverage for a "12345678" file not
having a proper extension on the end. I'd never find it.

Yeah, that tiny configuration window and the way it works is a real pain
to use, typical Microsoft non-resizable UI. But there are some strange
issues with the system index. I love having it built-in, but often I
have to use Agent Ransack because Explorer cannot find something in the
current folder that I KNOW is there, and has been there long enough that
it should be indexed. For example, it might not index .C and that's what
I want to search that day (it could easily detect plain text and index
it regardless of extension but it doesn't.) It's good for PDFs because I
have an iFilter for that, and for filenames (and even then, when I need
to be sure I use Agent Ransack.)

It amounts to doing this kind of thing in a search.

ext:jpg and width:1920

Paul

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