{"id":3512,"date":"2016-07-18T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:54:32","slug":"increase-desktop-wallpaper-jpeg-image-quality-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/increase-desktop-wallpaper-jpeg-image-quality-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Desktop Wallpaper Image Quality in Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you set an image as desktop background, the image is compressed at 85% and saved to a file named TranscodedWallpaper in your Themes directory. In Windows 10, you can override the default wallpaper quality for JPG files using a registry edit.<\/p>\n

Set Desktop Wallpaper Quality to 100%<\/h2>\n

Start Regedit.exe and go to the following key.<\/p>\n

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop<\/pre>\n
Create a DWORD value named JPEGImportQuality<\/p>\n
Double-click JPEGImportQuality and set its value data to 100 (decimal)<\/p>\n
Restart the explorer shell<\/a>, or logoff and login back for the change to take effect.<\/p>\n
You’ll need to right-click on the image and set it as wallpaper again, so that TranscodedWallpaper<\/em> in the following folder, is overwritten.<\/p>\n
%Appdata%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Themes<\/pre>\n
You can note the increase in TranscodedWallpaper<\/i> file size (and the image quality) after setting JPEGImportQuality to 100. JPEGImportQuality<\/a> value data can be anywhere in the 60 – 100 range (base: decimal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you set an image as desktop background, the image is compressed at 85% and saved to a file named TranscodedWallpaper in your Themes directory. In Windows 10, you can override the default wallpaper quality for JPG files using a registry edit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1261,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/find-current-wallpaper-file-path-windows-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":3512,"position":0},"title":"How to Find the Current Wallpaper File Name and Path in Windows 10\/11","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're using the Desktop background slideshow or third-party wallpaper changer software and want to find the file name of the currently displayed desktop wallpaper, then this article is for you. 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