Windows 8.1

For pre-release wallpapers and pictures, see Windows 8.1 Preview.

Windows 8.1
Year of release	2013
Default wallpaper	img0
Included image types	Wallpapers
Agencies used	Getty Images
Preceded by	Windows 8 (2012)
Succeeded by	Windows 10 (2015)

Windows 8.1 is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2013. It is the successor to Windows 8; it retains the new start screen interface, while reintroducing the start button. It was followed by Windows 10.

Wallpapers

While Windows 8.1 reused the Flowers theme from Windows 8, it came with a new default wallpaper and replaced the Nature theme with the Lines and colors theme. It is not known where most of the wallpapers from this theme originate from, although one of them is known to be an altered photo from Getty Images. The others may also originate from Getty, although reverse search engines regard them as visually too simplistic to make a match.

	Name	Category	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	img0	Windows	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Default wallpaper
	img1	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown	Flipped vertically, zoomed out from the top left, and recolored to blue from Windows 8.1 Preview's img100
	img2	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown
	img3	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown
	img4	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown
	img5	Lines and colors	Getty Images	Getty Images	John P. Malloy (credited on Getty as ballyscanlon)
	img6	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown
	img7	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img8	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img9	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Panoramic Reused from Windows 8
	img10	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img11	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img12	Flowers	N/A	Microsoft	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img13	Lines and colors	unknown	unknown	unknown	Panoramic

Lock screen wallpapers

8.1 came with a few built-in lock screen wallpapers, some of which originate from Getty Images, while the others were created by Microsoft themselves, including graphic designer Marius Bauer, who worked as a freelance designer on the team for four months. Most of these were reused from 8.

	Name	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	img100	unknown	unknown	unknown	Default lock screen wallpaper
	img101	N/A	Microsoft	Marius Bauer	Reused from Windows 8
	img102	SuperStock	Mauritius	Mark Jonsson	Reused from Windows 8
	img103	N/A	unknown	unknown	Reused from Windows 8
	img104	Getty Images	Getty Images	Celine Ramoni Lee	Reused from Windows 8
	img105	Getty Images	Getty Images	Adam Gault	Reused from Windows 8

User account pictures

Windows 8.1 has only two user account pictures used for default accounts and guest account respectively, both of which are identical. Both of these were reused from Windows 8. Like with 8, PNG versions of both of the pictures and resized versions of the user picture are included, probably used by Metro applications.

	Name	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	guest	unknown	Microsoft	unknown	Copy of the user account picture
	user	unknown	Microsoft	unknown

Picture Password

You can see this image in the Picture Password setup tutorial when setting it for the first time:

	Name	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	12345	N/A	Microsoft	Bernard Hymmen	Also appears in 8 and 10

Setup background

The setup background called background_cli.bmp used by Windows 8.1 Setup. It was reused from Windows 8. It can be found in the /sources/ folder inside of the installation media. The background itself consists of simply #180052, the default Windows 8 accent color. The same picture is also used in Windows 8, 10 and 11.