Wow, shoot video creation exclusive Win8 user avatar

  
Hello everyone, the Spring Festival's footsteps are getting closer and closer, near the end of the year, I don't know how you have been through this time? Gossip less, today we have to share with you some of the little tricks about Windows8. After Win8 is released, we share a lot of knowledge about it. I believe it should be helpful for everyone to familiarize with Windows 8.
The following is to share with you the mystery of the user avatar in Windows 8. As we all know, Windows 8 is still relatively large compared to previous versions of Windows, from the increase of functional modules to small details. Improvements can be said that change is ubiquitous. In the past, both the XP and Win7 users' avatars were static, but starting with Windows 8, we could take a small video to use as a user avatar, which is a big improvement. Let me talk about the method first, in fact, it is very simple, open the Charm menu, select the settings, and then select more computer settings:

In the personalization settings, select the user avatar:

Click to browse You can choose an image file as our user avatar, this has not changed compared to before, and below we see an option to create a user avatar:

Click on the camera at this time, we You will find that the computer's camera is turned on, which means that we can already shoot a simple video as our user's avatar.

A lot of times we will think that the head of a friend around us is very good. At this time we can ask him to help us copy the file of this avatar to myself. Under normal circumstances, these files are some jpg or png image files, we just need to set this image as a user avatar. But now we will find that under Windows 8, we can shoot a video as an avatar, so how can we pass this video to a friend? I can't take it anymore, in fact, don't worry, the solution is still very simple~
We all know that all kinds of documents or system settings in the computer are actually one by one. Only. Similarly, the Windows 8 avatar is also a file that we can find on our own computer. The method is very simple, we just need to go to this directory C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\AccountPictures, then we can see that our avatar will be displayed here, no matter it Is it a video or a picture:

After being set as a user avatar, they will be converted into a file called .accountpicture-ms. To change the avatar, we only need to double-click it. In this case, we can copy this file directly to friends:
This way, we can not only create video avatars, but also share avatar pictures with friends, is it more interesting? !
Okay, this is what I want to introduce to you today, let’s see you next time~

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