How to Set One Picture from a Theme as Wallpaper in Windows 10 - The Easy Way! #WIN10

Work from home in style, maximizing your Windows personalization experience.

Windows personalization themes generally come with a pack of images that automatically play in a slideshow on your desktop. Users can choose the speed of the slideshow and, depending on their software version, users can pick a single image for static display.

However, while Windows software versions prior to WIN10 allowed selection of one static image from that pack, WIN10 presents with slideshow-only theme function. There is a workaround, which involves finding your user-downloaded theme files and copy/pasting their packed images.

An abbreviated version of the personalization process:

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• Open file explorer and click on C: drive
  
• Find Users folder and open it
• Open the User folder containing downloaded theme pack
• Open AppData folder, then /Microsoft/Windows/Themes
• Click on named theme folder of choice- the folder will open and display a "DesktopBackground" folder--open it.
  
• Copy desired images to chosen folder, such as This PC/Pictures

Now you should be able to "personalize" your desktop image with your desired theme pack image via settings (accessible when you right-click your desktop).

While other users may have a different experience, it was this easy for me. No need to change any file extension names, or run any extractions, as is a common solution for the issue.

REF:

How do I find my Themes folder?