Windows Spotlight

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Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.

Windows Spotlight images are provided by Windows' Content Delivery Manager. New ones are shown every 1–2 days. Downloaded images are stored in JPEG format on the computer. If the Content Delivery Manager has no new picture to display, a default image is used. This default fallback image can be changed.