Windows 10: Broken windows key & ms-settings:personalisation-background

On my surface laptop my windows key stopped working. Along with some microsoft default apps. I don't get any icons when I swipe from the left or right on the screen and I cant tap the windows key to open the menu. The settings menu cannot also be accessed.


I can find all the apps I need by looking in ProgramFiles(x86) folder and creating shortcuts from there but many parts of the OS cannot be accessed. This happened after I was trying to wipe the drive through the Shift+Restart safe boot and drive wipe options.


I have tried

sfc /scannow

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth


I am on windows version 1809.

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personalising background pictures

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Follow these steps:

• Go to Settings,
• Click Personalization
• Highlight Background and scroll down toward the bottom and click Browse.
• Select the picture or photo to set as background.

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Set background slideshow

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand your inconvenience. We will assist you with it.

I suggest you to follow the steps provided below to set slide desktop.

• Press Windows logo key + I key.
• Click on Personalization.
• Under Background dropdown menu, select slideshow.
• Click on Browse button and then select the folder from which the desktop slide’s to be applied.

Hope this information is helpful. For any further information, feel free to contact us.

Thank you.

 

Background Personalisation

I have created my own Slideshow for Background in the Personalisation options.

Change Picture Every 1 minute is the fastest option available.

The frequency of change on Windows 8.1 could be set to 10 or 20 seconds.

How can I increase the Change Picture speed please?

I am using two monitors.