I use Classic Shell, so I'm not sure if the steps are the same for people who use the default Win 10 (Metro?) setup. In the top-left corner of each lock screen there is.
#Lock screen wallpapers for windows 10 update#
Start -> click on account picture -> change account settings -> Sign-in options -> Related settings / Lock screen -> Lock Screen to replace the background picture Windows 10 has added an update in the latest version allowing users to see where the photo came from. Settings -> Personalization -> Lock Screen to replace the background picture
So, I carefully repeated the steps as instructed, and it fixed the issue. Because the last step ended on the Lock Screen settings page, I thought at first that the HeatherS1969 approach simply used a different starting point but was ultimately the same, but the follow-up by MichelleBryant-Thomas in the thread suggested that it worked. Almost all of the solutions offered were about the same procedure mentioned above until I came across that of HeatherS1969.
#Lock screen wallpapers for windows 10 how to#
When I began looking for a solution on-line, I discovered my case was happening to others, too. If you don’t have it activated, here’s how to do it: Click in the search box of your Windows 10 taskbar and type lock screen, then hit enter, and it will launch the lock screen settings. Lock Screen Wallpaper Pictures For Windows 10 free download, and many more programs. I thought the picture or setting was stuck or it was a bug unique to my system/setup. I repeated the Settings procedure many times, but it did not produce the result I wanted. If I shutdown the system and cold-booted, the default Win 10 landscape wallpaper came up again on (what I call) the BOOT screen. From this point on until shutdown, if the system got locked manually or timed out, the new custom wallpaper was shown on the LOCK and LOGON screens all the time. If I touched the mouse or keyboard, the LOGON screen popped up with the new custom wallpaper. Then, every time I cold-booted, the system began showing the default Win 10 landscape wallpaper again. The new custom wallpaper was shown on both LOCK and LOGON screens. I manually locked my system to test it, no problem. I used Settings -> Personalization -> Lock Screen to replace the wallpaper using my own picture collection and set the same wallpaper for log-in (LOGON) screen. My system had been showing the default Win 10 landscape wallpapers in all screens.