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

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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?
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Regards,

Eric Stevens