Desktop background slideshow

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Desktop background slideshow

Craig Ward 0

How do I keep my background set to slideshow and not change back to picture after I change desktop

friday 0 Reputation points

2025-11-08T19:26:24.4433333+00:00

my laptop doesnt change picture, i put slideshows, and i chose a file that have 30 different pictures in it, and i chose to change it every 1 minute, but it didnt work at all, it stayed the same picture for hours. what step did i miss, or did i do something wrong for it to not work?
Oren Gammel 0 Reputation points

2026-06-30T22:35:22.0166667+00:00

For some odd reason, when I open the dropdown menu to pick slide show in the settings, sometimes it will immediately switch back to whatever setting I had it on previously. Or, I set it to slideshow on all desktops, then I come back later and find that it has switched back to picture. Does anyone have any idea why this happens, and how to fix it? It is causing me to be unable to use the slideshow feature on my computer.

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friday 0 Reputation points

2025-11-08T19:26:24.4433333+00:00

my laptop doesnt change picture, i put slideshows, and i chose a file that have 30 different pictures in it, and i chose to change it every 1 minute, but it didnt work at all, it stayed the same picture for hours. what step did i miss, or did i do something wrong for it to not work?
Oren Gammel 0 Reputation points

2026-06-30T22:35:22.0166667+00:00

For some odd reason, when I open the dropdown menu to pick slide show in the settings, sometimes it will immediately switch back to whatever setting I had it on previously. Or, I set it to slideshow on all desktops, then I come back later and find that it has switched back to picture. Does anyone have any idea why this happens, and how to fix it? It is causing me to be unable to use the slideshow feature on my computer.

Answer 1

Craig Ward 0

Please take note, every time I change desktops, the background option changes to picture, from slideshow.

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Answer 2

Francisco Montilla 30,725 Independent Advisor

Hi Craig,

In Windows 11 each virtual desktop keeps its own background mode, so if Desktop 1 is set to Slideshow and Desktop 2 is set to Picture, switching to Desktop 2 will make Background show Picture.

The fix is to set Slideshow once on every desktop you use. Press Win+Tab to open Task View, click a desktop thumbnail to switch to it, then open Settings > Personalization > Background and set Background to Slideshow, pick your folder, set Change picture every and turn on Shuffle if you want. Repeat those same steps after switching to each of your other desktops. Once every desktop is configured, switching desktops will no longer flip you back to Picture.

A little trick: When you create a new desktop, create it while you are on a desktop that already uses Slideshow, so the new one inherits that setting.

Craig Ward 0 Reputation points

2025-11-11T04:13:49.0933333+00:00

I deleted all desktops except the original one, then I made sure the background was set to slideshow. I then created a 2nd desktop and changed to it. When I went back to the first desktop, the background changed back to picture.