Extracting a custom wallpaper from an OS .img file - Vista

slipd · 24 Mar 2013 at 12:33

Hi guys,

I have 3 Macrium image files with my old Vista OS's in them and I want to extract the wallpaper/s that I used on them. I know the default store for the built-in ones is windows/web/wallpapers but my custom backgrounds were added by right-clicking on the file and setting as background.

Any ideas on how (where) I'd find them in the .img files?

Thanks.

j6m · 24 Mar 2013 at 15:30

Somewhere like this, perhaps?

Code:

X:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper.jpg

slipd · 24 Mar 2013 at 17:39

j6m said:
Somewhere like this, perhaps?

Code:

X:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper.jpg

Nope, nothing there

Isn't there a registry key that has the path of the current wallpaper?

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Mar 2013 at 20:05

Sam try in the following location;

Code:

PATH: C:\Windows\web\wallpaper\Windows

Code:

OR: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

marc2003 · 24 Mar 2013 at 20:31

it'll be under your user profile somewhere. can you not extract the whole user folder and then search for all .jpg files. or perhaps this software supports search within the image? i'm not familiar with it myself.

slipd · 24 Mar 2013 at 23:51

Bingo! Thanks all.

I open the image and just looked for *.jpg - found what I was after almost instantly