14 DAY TRIAL // If you’re already on Windows 10 and using the Spotlight feature, you probably know that Microsoft has some pretty awesome wallpapers for your lock screen, all of them in high resolution and working on both PCs and smartphones.
And certainly, there are lots of users out there who’d want these wallpapers to be used on their desktops too, but for the moment, Windows Spotlight only supports the Windows 10 lock screen.
Fortunately, one Redditor has decided to post all Windows Spotlight photos online so you can pick the ones you want and use them as your desktop wallpaper too.
There’s only one problem, though: some of these wallpapers appear to be compressed, and you’re going to see significantly reduced quality when using them on high-resolution screens. Fortunately, there’s a different way to get these photos on your PC.
The alternative method (for high-resolution photos)
An app that’s available in the Windows 10 store allows you to see and download all photos that have been used on Spotlight since launch.
Called SpotBright, the app works on Windows 10 PCs and smartphones and can automatically download these wallpapers on the local drives, letting you access them with a file manager and then pick only the ones that you like.
On Windows 10 PCs, for instance, you can download these photos to your hard disk drive and then configure the operating system to automatically replace the desktop wallpaper on a regular basis by pointing to the folder hosting the images.
The whole collection includes more than 100 high-resolution wallpapers, so it could take a while before the download process is complete, but this also depends on your Internet speed. It’s worth mentioning that SpotBright automatically downloads both PC and smartphone versions, so you’ll have to remove the latter if you want to use them on a desktop computer.
