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Where are the images from Windows Spotlight coming from? Where are they being saved on my system? Is there any way for me to point this at my own source of images?

Michael S.
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Zoredache
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The pictures are located at:

C:\Users{your_name}\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets

And they will look like this: enter image description here

Renaming these to .JPG will reveal it as a picture but I am not sure there is a way to generate the names. So the only idea I have is to note the existing names and rename your own pictures to match them...

TomEus
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Ditto @TomEus

Here is a script to save them to a sub-folder in your local Pictures folder. Also works for through build 22631.2428.

Get-ChildItem $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets |
ForEach-Object ($file) {
    if ((Test-Path -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\Pictures\Windows Spotlight\$($_.Name).jpg") -eq $false) {
        Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "$env:USERPROFILE\Pictures\Windows Spotlight\$($_.Name).jpg" #-WhatIf
        }
    }
Start-Process explorer -ArgumentList "$env:USERPROFILE\Pictures\Windows Spotlight"
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