# Need Stock Windows Desktop Images
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 6, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021 "2008-08-06T12:07:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Walter.P.Higgens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter.P.Higgens)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021/1 "2008-08-06T12:07:48Z")
I’m a Mac User doing a project for a PC company, and I need to use the stock Windows desktop images. I’m especially interested in the rolling-hills-and-blue-sky and bench-at-the-end-of-a-tree-lined-path pictures. Would someone be so kind as to e-mail them to me?
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021/2 "2008-08-06T14:33:06Z")
Maybe a better question would be…Where can someone find a complete collection of Microsoft Desktop Background images?
Is this available at [Microsoft.com](http://Microsoft.com)? (I couldn’t seem to find any there)
I would imagine that we’re looking at the XP and/or Vista OS and not 2000 or earlier.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021/3 "2008-08-06T14:36:13Z")
Lots of them by googling “vista wallpaper”.
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### Author:  [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021/4 "2008-08-06T14:52:08Z")
[QUOTE=Walter.P.Higgens]
I’m a Mac User doing a project for a PC company, and I need to use the stock Windows desktop images. I’m especially interested in the rolling-hills-and-blue-sky and bench-at-the-end-of-a-tree-lined-path pictures. Would someone be so kind as to e-mail them to me?
[/QUOTE]
The rolling-hills-etc image is called “bliss”
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-stock-windows-desktop-images/459021/5 "2008-08-06T15:04:27Z")
1. A request for someone to email you a copy of something is not a factual question. Ordinarily, I would move this thread to a more appropriate forum. But,
2. The images are protected by copyright law. So I’ll close the thread instead.
**Gfactor**
General Questions Moderator