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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ;-) -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo To baldly go where ... where did my hair go? -Picard |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo C:\DOS\SYSTEM\OS2\UTILITIES\DOCS\HELP\WHERE\THE\F$ #%\AM\I? |
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