House Home windows 10 comes with its own inventory of desktop background photos and also allows users to add their own desktop background photos. However, do you know any easy method to remove desktop background photos in House Home windows 10 in case you want to?
Remove desktop background photos in House home windows 10
As you may have noticed, right-clicking does not work when you try to delete system wallpaper photos that already exist on your computer.
Also, you won't be able to right-click and delete external photos that you've previously downloaded and used as background photos on your computer.
So, below are the steps you can follow to remove system desktop background and downloaded photos on Windows 10 Home.
1. Remove desktop background photos (system photos)
In Windows 10 Home, system desktop background photos are saved in the “Wallpaper” folder, which you can access simply using File Explorer on your computer.
1. Press the start button correctly and click on File Browser.
2. In the File Explorer screen, navigate to C: WindowsWeb and double click on Wallpaper Archive.
Be careful: You can also enter the wallpaper folder by typing «C:WindowsWallpaper» in the Home windows House search bar.
3. In the “Wallpaper” folder, you will see several folders containing system desktop background images.
4. To remove a background image from the system desktop, simply right-click on the image image and click on the image Delete choice.
The selected desktop background image will be removed from your computer.
2. Delete desktop background images (uploaded images)
When you set an external photo as your desktop background, the photo will be placed in the same location where you set it as your desktop background.
You should be able to discover the external desktop background image in popular places like Photos, Downloads, Library or somewhere on your desktop.
If you are completely lost and can't find the location of your desktop background image, you can follow the steps below to find and remove your desktop background image.
1. Open Settings on your PC and click Personalization..
2. On the customization screen, click Themes in the left panel. In the right panel, you will see that the Title from the desktop image in the “Background” section (see image below).
3. Order the Title of the wallpaper image in the search bar and it is preferable to be able to see the location of the image file and be able to enter the file by pressing Open file location to choose.
4. When you reach the image file location, right-click on the image photo and click Delete from the drop-down list.
If the image you just deleted is your current desktop background, you will continue to see the same background until you change your desktop background image.
To change the desktop background go to Settings > Personalization. > Wallpaper > and choose your New Desktop Background image.
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