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I am looking for some code that will convert an image into a Transcoded Image for use as a wallpaper in Windows 10. Ideally I would like to use python, but am open to anything. I am currently blocked on my machine from customizing my wallpapers so I want to create a workaround where I can give some code an image, it can transcode it, and Windows can display it as my background.

My images will all be simple jpeg and png files.

For reference, the transcoded wallpaper will live in the folders relating to this answer: Path to current desktop backgrounds in Windows 10?

Cheers

obewanjacobi
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The background image is located in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper.

I used a hex editor and saw that it had a PNG file header. So I copied it elsewhere and renamed it to TranscodedWallpaper.png. A photo editor then had no problem to display this image.

The conversion is then very simple : Convert the image to PNG format and rename it to TranscodedWallpaper. I have not checked if the JPEG format will also work.

I think the "Transcoded" part of the file-name just means that Windows by default will take the image the user specifies and convert it to a low-resolution image (this might date from pretty far back and wouldn't probably be needed on today's computers.)

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