Setting different Backgrounds for Dual Monitors in Windows 10

Hi All,
If you have a dual monitors and want to set a different background for each. You don't need third party program to set them. Here's an easy way:

1. Copy the background images to: C:WindowsWebWallpaperWindows
   
   
2. Use CTRL key for multiple selection to select both backgrounds.
3. Right click on one background->Set as desktop background

You should have a separate background for each monitor.

The background images will be stored under:
%USERPROFILE%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsThemes
as:
Transcoded_000and Transcoded_001without extension

If you want to swap the images, just rename 0 to 1, 1 to 0. Sign out and sign back in or
right click on desktop and select: Next desktop background



Here's an example:

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

You are welcome. In addition, you can save it as a theme:

Excellent, thanks.

I saw someone point to this article: I figured I'd point out that you can also just directly use the old UI. Go to the Run or a CMD prompt and enter:
control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper

That'll take you to the old Background control panel which has this UI. Looks like they haven't added it to the new Settings page yet. :

Thanks for the tip. I made a shortcut with that and it worked perfectly.

Why doesn't this work for me? I CTRL selected 2 wallpapers but it it applies whichever I right-clicked on as the default wallpaper. Going into %USERPROFILE%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsTheme, I see only one file named TranscodedWallpaper?

Nanodice: does using the control panel method I mentioned work for me? Seems like an easier route.

Nope..It shows two wallpapers but it still sets the same one wallpaper for both screens..

Nope..It shows two wallpapers but it still sets the same one wallpaper for both screens..

I fixed it by selecting three pictures and then just clicking next until I got the combination I wanted!