Where Win 10 keeps photos from camera?

Hi All,

I took a photo using the laptop camera accidently.
The photo appears as a background on the screen for logging.

I found the file with the photo in the directory:
C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera.
I did not want to keep the photo on my computer so I removed the file
from the above dictionary. (Unfortunately, I do not remember the name
of the file.)
Despite removing the file from C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera,
the photo is still on the list of 5 photos in Lock screen Background
Picture.
I do not know how to get rid of it.

I checked the following directories:
- C:\Users\my-name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows
ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\As sets
- C:\Windows\Web\Screen
My photo was not there.

I did not configure the OneDrive so the photo is not there. I do not
use any external disks, pendrives and so on.

I know that I can select another photo to be displayed as a background
for logging, however it does not solve the problem.
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.

Please tell me how to remove the photo (made by laptop camera)
from Windows 10 Home. Where the system keeps such photos?

Regards,
EZ

EZ wrote:
Hi All,

I took a photo using the laptop camera accidently.
The photo appears as a background on the screen for logging.

I found the file with the photo in the directory:
C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera.
I did not want to keep the photo on my computer so I removed the file
from the above dictionary. (Unfortunately, I do not remember the name
of the file.)
Despite removing the file from C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera,
the photo is still on the list of 5 photos in Lock screen Background
Picture.
I do not know how to get rid of it.

I checked the following directories:
- C:\Users\my-name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows
ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\As sets
- C:\Windows\Web\Screen
My photo was not there.

I did not configure the OneDrive so the photo is not there. I do not
use any external disks, pendrives and so on.

I know that I can select another photo to be displayed as a background
for logging, however it does not solve the problem.
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.

Please tell me how to remove the photo (made by laptop camera)
from Windows 10 Home. Where the system keeps such photos?

Regards,
EZ


https://www.addictivetips.com/window...in-windows-10/

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallp aper [and similarly names ones\

Switching between Slideshow and Picture, there was
activity in the Themes folder.

*******

Do you know if the file is a .jpg ?

If so, you might try a file search

ext:jpg

then sort by date, and examine the most recent photos that way.

But note that TranscodedWallpaper has no file extension,
so a Windows extension-based search is rather incomplete.

*******

You could also attempt to use a Duplicate Image Finder program,
*if* the original image is still available to you. I have a piece
of code around here somewhere, which finds self-similar images
via their "signature" and the signature is a home-made
heuristic that only works properly at a fixed resolution.
The error grows gradually, if the image has too high
a resolution. It's possible the commercial ones are
slightly better, in that they would spend more time
improving their heuristic methods.

The bash shell has the "file" command, which when you do

bash
cd /mnt/c/users/username/Appdata/Microsoft/Windows/Themes

file TranscodedWallpaper

should tell you the file is JPG. There is also a program
called findimagedupes or so.

bash

apt search findimagedupes

findimagedupes

sudo apt install findimagedupes

And so on.

Paul

U¿ytkownik "Paul" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...
EZ wrote:
Hi All,

I took a photo using the laptop camera accidently.
The photo appears as a background on the screen for logging.

I found the file with the photo in the directory:
C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera.
I did not want to keep the photo on my computer so I removed the file
from the above dictionary. (Unfortunately, I do not remember the name
of the file.)
Despite removing the file from C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera,
the photo is still on the list of 5 photos in Lock screen
Background
Picture.
I do not know how to get rid of it.

I checked the following directories:
- C:\Users\my-name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows
ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\As sets
- C:\Windows\Web\Screen
My photo was not there.

I did not configure the OneDrive so the photo is not there. I do not
use any external disks, pendrives and so on.

I know that I can select another photo to be displayed as a
background
for logging, however it does not solve the problem.
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.

Please tell me how to remove the photo (made by laptop camera)
from Windows 10 Home. Where the system keeps such photos?

Regards,
EZ


https://www.addictivetips.com/window...in-windows-10/

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallp aper [and
similarly names ones\

Switching between Slideshow and Picture, there was
activity in the Themes folder.

I selected the Lock Screen Background Picture (in this case my
photo made by laptop camera is on the list of 5 pictures; it is still
visible).
I typed Windows+R and wrote %AppData%.
It opened the directory: desktop my-name AppData Roaming
in the File Explorer. Then I continued: Microsoft Windows Themes.
In the Themes subdirectory there are 2 files: slideshow.ini and
TranscodeWallpaper.
The file slideshow is empty (0 KB).
I opened the file TranscodeWallpaper using Paint program. It contains
a picture which I saw as a wallpaper just after installing the Win 10
Home
(colored umbrellas).
Now the picture with umbrellas is not on the list of 5 pictures in Lock
screen Background Picture. I do not remember when the picture with
umbrellas disappeared but it was soon after the installing Win 10 Home.

Nothing changed when I switched: the Lock Screen Background
Slideshow or the Lock Screen Background Windows Spotlight.
Always the same picture with umbrellas in the file TranscodeWallpaper.

Do you know if the file is a .jpg ?

I do not know because I do not remember the name of the file that
I removed. :-(

If so, you might try a file search

ext:jpg

then sort by date, and examine the most recent photos that way.

But note that TranscodedWallpaper has no file extension,
so a Windows extension-based search is rather incomplete.

I tried to find the picture using the advanced searching in File
Explorer checking the type of the file as "picture".
I also used the program FileSearchy with checking the "picture" as a
type.
I did not find my picture.

You could also attempt to use a Duplicate Image Finder program,
*if* the original image is still available to you. I have a piece
of code around here somewhere, which finds self-similar images
via their "signature" and the signature is a home-made
heuristic that only works properly at a fixed resolution.
The error grows gradually, if the image has too high
a resolution. It's possible the commercial ones are
slightly better, in that they would spend more time
improving their heuristic methods.

The bash shell has the "file" command, which when you do

bash
cd /mnt/c/users/username/Appdata/Microsoft/Windows/Themes

file TranscodedWallpaper

should tell you the file is JPG. There is also a program
called findimagedupes or so.

bash

apt search findimagedupes

findimagedupes

sudo apt install findimagedupes

And so on.

It seems to me that the above code is for Linux, am I right? No Linux
system is available for me now. I have to think it over.

Thanks for your answer.

Regards,
Ez

Paul wrote:
EZ wrote:
Hi All,

I took a photo using the laptop camera accidently.
The photo appears as a background on the screen for logging.

I found the file with the photo in the directory:
C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera.
I did not want to keep the photo on my computer so I removed the file
from the above dictionary. (Unfortunately, I do not remember the name
of the file.)
Despite removing the file from C:\This PC\Pictures\From camera,
the photo is still on the list of 5 photos in Lock screen Background
Picture.
I do not know how to get rid of it.

I checked the following directories:
- C:\Users\my-name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows
ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\As sets
- C:\Windows\Web\Screen
My photo was not there.

I did not configure the OneDrive so the photo is not there. I do not
use any external disks, pendrives and so on.

I know that I can select another photo to be displayed as a background
for logging, however it does not solve the problem.
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.

Please tell me how to remove the photo (made by laptop camera)
from Windows 10 Home. Where the system keeps such photos?

Regards,
EZ


https://www.addictivetips.com/window...in-windows-10/


%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallp aper [and
similarly names ones\

Switching between Slideshow and Picture, there was
activity in the Themes folder.

*******

Do you know if the file is a .jpg ?

If so, you might try a file search

ext:jpg

then sort by date, and examine the most recent photos that way.

But note that TranscodedWallpaper has no file extension,
so a Windows extension-based search is rather incomplete.

*******

You could also attempt to use a Duplicate Image Finder program,
*if* the original image is still available to you. I have a piece
of code around here somewhere, which finds self-similar images
via their "signature" and the signature is a home-made
heuristic that only works properly at a fixed resolution.
The error grows gradually, if the image has too high
a resolution. It's possible the commercial ones are
slightly better, in that they would spend more time
improving their heuristic methods.

The bash shell has the "file" command, which when you do

bash
cd /mnt/c/users/username/Appdata/Microsoft/Windows/Themes

file TranscodedWallpaper

should tell you the file is JPG. There is also a program
called findimagedupes or so.

bash

apt search findimagedupes

findimagedupes

sudo apt install findimagedupes

And so on.

Paul

cd /d %userprofile%\Downloads

# Fire up the WSL part of Windows 10 that has Ubuntu Bash in it.
# This is available from the Windows Store, with suitable incantation.

bash

# This covers about 2/3rds of the file system, as I expect
# the permissions of the bash job aren't sufficient to visit
# the entire file system. The "tee" command allows filenames
# to flash by on the screen, and you can tell the degree of "progress"
# by the paths visited. What this does is "find every item which is
# a file, then probe it to determine its file type". Even files with
# no file extension will be properly "sniffed". And this is necessary
# because Microsoft used "TranscodedWallpaper" as the name of a .jpg file
# and didn't use a file extension.

find /mnt/c -type f -exec file -- {} + | tee filetypes.txt

# This is intended to show two examples of JPEG files.
# Windows cannot "see" the second file under normal circumstances,
# because it lacks a file extension on the end. You can just hear
# the snickering at MS headquarters about stuff like this.
# And this means, when we analyze the filesystem for "JPEGs", we
# have to put an extra effort into it.

grep -i "jpeg image data" filetypes.txt jpegtypes.txt

/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/CachedFiles/CachedImage_1440_900_POS4.jpg:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 0x0,
segment length 16, baseline, precision 8, 1440x900, frames 3
/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/TranscodedWallpaper:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 96x96,
segment length 16, Exif Standard: [TIFF image data, big-endian,
direntries=1], baseline, precision 8, 3264x2448, frames 3

egrep -i "jpeg image data|png image data|PC bitmap|gif image data" filetypes.txt imagetypes.txt

# This command shaves the gunk off the end, and just keeps the path of each file.
# I'm printing the first "field" of each line, which has the path/filename in it.

gawk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1}' imagetypes.txt imagefilenames.txt

# The output fingerfile.txt here, gives the fingerprint of each file.
# Comparing the fingerprint of TranscodedWallpaper to other entries
# in Wordpad or Notepad, would tell you which file is similar.
# (The database somedb is in a binary format. A don't-care at the moment.)

cat imagefilenames.txt | findimagedupes --fingerprints=somedb --rescan --add -v fingerprint - | tee fingerfile.txt

# The author of the program "says it has a memory leak" and hey,
# he is right. It uses a fair amount of RAM. I gave it the whole
# machine and turned off my RAMDisk so it could have the whole
# thing, and the processing of 28000 files completed. It was bombing
# when it only had 1/8th of the system.

The file output consists of two parts. The top part, is a copy
of all the fingerprints of the files, so we can compare signatures
and "see how different" they are. The second part of the output,
is after all the fingerprints are calculated, the "duplicates" are
listed, with all the duplicate files being on the same line.

These four files are "on the same line" and so they're considered
close enough to be dupes. The "Picture111" is the image shot with
my Webcam, just like you did.

/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/CachedFiles/CachedImage_1440_900_POS4.jpg
/mnt/c/Users/username/.thumbnails/normal/39c5e9bcd05647a385905a3e04e3e994.png
/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/TranscodedWallpaper
/mnt/c/Users/username/Pictures/Logitech Webcam/Picture111.jpg

H/8e/w7/Hv6e/h78jvwO/o56DjIOEg8QDxAPEA8QDxA= /mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/CachedFiles/CachedImage_1440_900_POS4.jpg
////////v//j/8fu+AOBBIBnAGQWPW/8H/sAoAAAAAA= /mnt/c/Users/username/.thumbnails/normal/3f2163eab056fcf19cb44e54b3aa5ccb.png
/z8ffw7/Hv6e/h78jvqOPo46DhIPEA8QDxAPEA8Qzwk= /mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Themes/TranscodedWallpaper
/38ffw7/Hv6e/h78jvqOPo46DhIPEA8QDxAPEA8Qzwk= /mnt/c/Users/username/Pictures/Logitech Webcam/Picture111.jpg

CachedImage_1440_900_POS4.jpg 1440x900 JPEG
3f2163eab056fcf19cb44e54b3aa5ccb.png 80x128 PNG
TranscodedWallpaper 3264x2448 JPEG with TIFF image data
Picture111.jpg 3264x2448 JPEG

You can see the last two files, are "closely related" by fingerprint.
The top file isn't quite as close apparently.
And how it got the Thumbnail file (which is super-tiny) is
anyones guess. The Thumbnail isn't even remotely close, but
the default threshold says it is the same. You can adjust
the threshold if you want on the command line.

*******

Can you do it that way ? Apparently yes.

Should you do it that way ? Of course not!

This run was just for fun, to revisit a program
I used a few years ago, and see how much better it
is today. Well, it's still got a memory leak...

And what we learned, is we need to remove the thumbnail file too.

Paul

U¿ytkownik "Paul" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...

[...]

Can you do it that way ? Apparently yes.

Should you do it that way ? Of course not!

This run was just for fun, to revisit a program
I used a few years ago, and see how much better it
is today. Well, it's still got a memory leak...

And what we learned, is we need to remove the thumbnail file too.

Paul, thank you very much. I will try it but I need more time. :-)

I think that the most important thing is that I will not be able to
use my camera until I will solve the problem. It is a risk that
anytime I would use the camera, any photo could be put by the system
on the list of pictures in Lock screen. It is unacceptable.

Regards,
EZ

The wallpaper images included with Windows and available to all users
are under the C:\Windows\Web folder (where you visited the Screen
subfolder but didn't mention if you looked in the other subfolders).

According to the article mentioned by Paul, and what I found in my
setup, the per-user Theme images are under:

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

You went to the parent folder of CachedFiles. Did you look *in* the
folder named CachedFiles? I don't use images for the desktop
background. Instead I use solid colors, like black. In the CachedFiles
subfolder, I found a file named CachedImage_2560_1440_POS4.jpg which was
a black image. I would never use such a name for an image file, so the
OS created that file by that name.

You mentioned looking at the following folder:

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentD eliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

However, those are Spotlight images with random-looking filenames with
no extension. Oh goody, more garbage that has nothing to do with being
an operating system but rather some inane "feature" to bloat the OS.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-f...age-windows-10
"On Windows 10, Windows Spotlight is a feature that downloads and sets
Bing images as the background on the Lock screen automatically, which
allows you to get a fresh look every time you sign in."

You'll have to copy those files to another temp folder and rename them
to the .jpg extension. Then you can see which files have images and
which are icons. While renaming the files to add the .jpg extension,
you might want to rename the filename to something much shorter, like
pic1.jpg, pic2.jpg, etc. Spotlight images on the lock screen are what
you get in the Settings - Personalization - Lock screen, Background,
and use the listbox to select "Windows Spotlight". According to:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...dows-spotlight

you disable the Spotlight "feature" in the lock screen by NOT selecting
"Windows spotlight" and pick something else, like Picture or Slideshow.
I don't want garbage on my lock screen, so I use a black picture. I
suspect back when I was tweaking Windows 10 after installing it that I
had to download or take a pic that was a black image, use Browse to pick
that .jpg file, and later deleted the black.jpg file. That might be why
there is a .jpg of a black image under the above mentioned CachedFiles
subfolder under the Themes folder in my profile.

From what you said, you aren't using the old image as your current
wallpaper for the desktop or lockscreen. It's the history list of
images where you want to delete the old image. Have you tried deleting
all the Spotlight assets (locally stored images in random-named files
with no extension) per the WindowsCentral article? If you are not using
Spotlight then no point in wasting the disk space to store them locally,
and maybe that affects the history list of images from which you are
trying to eliminate showing your old photo.

Because the "Choose your picture" seems to be a history list of images,
I did a Google search on 'windows 10 lock screen "choose your picture"
history erase' and found:

https://www.askvg.com/windows-10-tip...y-in-settings/

Well, since it is a history list with a maximum of 5 images in the list,
and as the article mentions, you could simply select enough images until
the one you don't want shown gets rolled off the list. The above
article mentions where is the cache of history images. Usually I have
to wander into the registry to find out what is the SID (Security
Identifier) for my Windows account, but I just found you can run the
following in a command shell:

WMIC useraccount get name,sid

The Name column is where you would identify your Windows account by your
user name, but you need the SID string in the folder navigation. I'd
suggest copying the SID string from the above output and then use:

%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData\pasteH ere\ReadOnly

pasteHere is where you paste the SID string you copied from the output
of the wmic command. Unlike the article states, I did not have to
bother with making me the owner of the folder to just look inside the
subfolders there. I did not try to delete any of the images there, and
that might require additional permissions.

If all you want to effect is not seeing your old photo in the "Choose
your picture" history list then just select more photos you don't mind
showing up in that history list until the unwanted photo rolls off the
history list. If you're concerned about someone finding a nude pic you
took of yourself by digging into the file system and registry, yeah,
then use the AskVG article to delete the old image file (if it is still
there after rolling it off the "Choose your picture" history list).

By the way, Windows 10 comes with the bash shell. It's part of
Microsoft integration with Linux (instead of, for example, you having to
install Cygwin).

On 6/12/2019 3:33 PM, EZ wrote:

U¿ytkownik "Paul" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...

[...]

Can you do it that way ? Apparently yes.

Should you do it that way ? Of course not!

This run was just for fun, to revisit a program
I used a few years ago, and see how much better it
is today. Well, it's still got a memory leak...

And what we learned, is we need to remove the thumbnail file too.

Paul, thank you very much. I will try it but I need more time. :-)

I think that the most important thing is that I will not be able to
use my camera until I will solve the problem. It is a risk that
anytime I would use the camera, any photo could be put by the system
on the list of pictures in Lock screen. It is unacceptable.

Regards,
EZ


Take a new picture, write down the name, and then search for it. It
should be in the same place the other one went.

--
Zaidy036

Uzytkownik "VanguardLH" napisal w wiadomosci
...
The wallpaper images included with Windows and available to all users
are under the C:\Windows\Web folder (where you visited the Screen
subfolder but didn't mention if you looked in the other subfolders).
Other subfolders contain some photos but not my photo.

According to the article mentioned by Paul, and what I found in my
setup, the per-user Theme images are under:

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles

You went to the parent folder of CachedFiles. Did you look *in* the
folder named CachedFiles?
I don't use images for the desktop
background. Instead I use solid colors, like black. In the
CachedFiles
subfolder, I found a file named CachedImage_2560_1440_POS4.jpg which
was
a black image. I would never use such a name for an image file, so
the
OS created that file by that name.
When I went to the folder %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
for the first time it contained only the files slideshow.ini and
TranscodeWallpaper.
I looked at it now once again and it contains also the subfolder
CachedFiles with the file CachedImage_1920_1080_POS4.jpg in it.
I do not know what caused that subfolder and the file was created.
The date and time of creating the subforlder and the file show that it
was about 2 hours ago i.e. when I was typing my first answer to Paul.
The picture shows my wallpaper that I am using now.

You mentioned looking at the following folder:

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentD eliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

However, those are Spotlight images
I supposed that but I wanted to inform where I was looking for my photo.

[...]

I need some time to analyze the rest of your post.

Thanks for your answer.

Regards,
EZ

U¿ytkownik "Zaidy036" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...

Take a new picture, write down the name, and then search for it. It
should be in the same place the other one went.

It was my first thought but after searching the problem I think now that
the place of it is a kind of secret. :-) I simply did not want to extend
the problem.

Regards,
EZ

EZ wrote:

U¿ytkownik "Zaidy036" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...

Take a new picture, write down the name, and then search for it. It
should be in the same place the other one went.

It was my first thought but after searching the problem I think now that
the place of it is a kind of secret. :-) I simply did not want to extend
the problem.

Regards,
EZ

There are also other ways to bring back the original.

"Undelete" programs flip the byte in the $MFT that says
a file is deleted, and make it exist again. This works
until the data clusters get overwritten by normal usage.
Since Windows 10 C: is a rather busy partition, that
file is probably already rated "poor" by commercial
undelete software.

Recuva

https://forum.piriform.com/topic/455...ter-than-poor/

*******

A second recovery method, is if you turned on File History
and have a backup drive for it to dump stuff on.

When you delete a file, you might think "now there is
no reference to the file any more". This is wrong.

I read an article that said, "locate the folder that holds
the file, then do a restore of the folder, thus recovering
a point in time where the file existed inside the folder".
That's how you use File History to recovery a file which
is "deleted".

On computers, it's very difficult to absolutely guarantee
there isn't a copy of something, somewhere. If you look
at program installers for example, there could be three
or four folders with various stages of unpacked or cached
files. Macrium is an example of a "litterbug", which leaves
large files all over the place (part of the emergency
boot CD making software).

Paul

U¿ytkownik "Paul" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
...
On computers, it's very difficult to absolutely guarantee
there isn't a copy of something, somewhere.

I still keep looking for my photo. However if I am not able to find
it and remove from the system, I will reinstall the system using the
recovery partition.
Can I be sure that, after formatting the system partition nad installing
the system from the scratch using the recovery partition, the photo
will not exist in my laptop?
What about the OneDrive? I did not configure it but I am not sure
if it do not work without my permission. Can I be sure that the photo
will not be kept in the OneDrive after reinstalling the system?

By the way, I do not know much about Windows 10. Could you
recommend to me any good tutorial available in the Internet?
Something explaining everything in simply way from the beginning.

Regards,
EZ

On 13/06/2019 17:56, EZ wrote:



By the way, I do not know much about Windows 10.

which Windows do you know about?

Could you
recommend to me any good tutorial available in the Internet?

How about buying a book for dummies? See this pictu

[ alt-no ]
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51c5k98XBtL._SX397_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Something explaining everything in simply way from the beginning.

Have you heard of a search engine called Google? Perhaps try using it.
you can't expect to learn anything new unless you try it yourself.

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Regards,
EZ



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EZ wrote:

Paul ...

On computers, it's very difficult to absolutely guarantee there isn't
a copy of something, somewhere.

I still keep looking for my photo. However if I am not able to find
it and remove from the system, I will reinstall the system using the
recovery partition.

You don't want to remove the photo because it is stuck as the desktop or
lockscreen background. You said you simply don't want it to appear in
the history list of "Choose a photo". Did you see the last part of my
prior reply? Try that.

Reinstalling the OS just to get rid of something in a MRU (Most Recently
Used) history is so drastic that I have to wonder what was the content
of this photo you are so desparate to get rid of. As you use Windows,
or any operating system, you will find even more nuisances, and
reinstalling the OS won't get rid of them.

By the way, I do not know much about Windows 10. Could you recommend
to me any good tutorial available in the Internet? Something
explaining everything in simply way from the beginning.

"Windows 10 All-In-One for Dummies" by Woody Leonhard.
ISBN-10: 9781119484837
ISBN-13: 978-1119484837

Don't know if it is available online or as an e-book. Your public
library might have it. That's where I got a copy. Make sure to get the
latest edition (3rd). The 1st edition won't be marked as such on the
cover because, well, at that time it won't be known there will be more.
The 2nd edition, and later, are marked as subsequent editions.

It is a big book (960 pages, 3.6 pounds), so you'll want to immediately
start reading it before the e-book or book checkout period expires. I
checked out several books (and still am) on Windows 10 from my local
public library; however, after first reading Woody's book, the others
were just duplicates and not in as much detail, so I ended up skimming
through the other books and polished them off in less than an hour.

I saw it for $20 at Amazon (as a Kindle e-book). $25 for the paperback
edition. Check your library first as it would be free from there (for
awhile).

Uzytkownik "VanguardLH" napisal w wiadomosci
...
You don't want to remove the photo because it is stuck as the desktop
or
lockscreen background. You said you simply don't want it to appear in
the history list of "Choose a photo".

No. I wrote in my first post that began the thread:
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.
However getting rid of the photo is not the only reason for reinstalling
the system.

Thanks for the info about the book.

Regards,
EZ

EZ wrote:

Uzytkownik "VanguardLH" napisal w wiadomosci
...
You don't want to remove the photo because it is stuck as the desktop
or
lockscreen background. You said you simply don't want it to appear in
the history list of "Choose a photo".

No. I wrote in my first post that began the thread:
I want the photo to be removed from the system at all.

And did the unwanted photo disappear after adding more photo(s) to roll
out the old one or clearing the history cache folder?

The photo showing in the history list does not affect the use of the
computer or the OS, so an OS reinstall just to get rid of a photo that
has no effect on the setup is extreme. Doesn't appear you have tried to
clear the history (by rolling out the old photo or deleting from the
history cache).