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

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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"

bas

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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.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens