Windows 10: How can I force the Microsoft Screen Saver Slide Show to stop using the same pictures every...

For as long as MS has had the photo slide show screen saver, it has always repeated the same photos every time it turns on. The technology to fix this problems has existed since literally before Windows OS and its photo slide show even existed. All the program needs to do is use a random function to guide each file selection. That random function should be time dependent, not something that starts from the same seed value each time which it clearly does at the present. A middle school coder could look at your code and modify it to do this fix. Just provide the code to the public, offer $50 t

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Slide Show Screen Saver Error


I've been using the Slide Show Screen Saver for a while now but recently a problem cropped up. The slide show would run for about 5 minutes or so but then it would freeze on a picture for a bit and then the screen would go black with a "An error has stopped the slide show from playing" message. What's wrong and how can I fix it?

 

Stop photo slide show during sleep mode

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

You may follow the steps mentioned below so that the slide show stop after 20 minutes:

• Click on the search bar on the taskbar.
• Type Screen saver and click on Change Screen saver.
• Under screen saver - Wait- increase the minutes to 20.
• Click OK and check with the issue.

Hope it helps.

 

Rotating/Slide Show Screen Saver for Windows 10

Some refinements to
Karthicka_R's minimalist answer.

• Even though MS blithely provides Win8-specific answers to Win10-specific questions, the answer -- at least in this case -- is nearly sufficient for Win10 v1607.
• If users pay some extra attention to what they're doing in the course of his instructions, they can get through the omissions & errors of the instructions:
  • Step 1: In the search Cortana search box type
    "settings" . . . .
    • Very bizzarely (IMHO) the Settings app is subtitled as a "Trusted Windows Store App." I don't care how trusted it is, I do not like the idea of my device settings manager existing at the same level as something out of any App
      Store. In any case, don't let this "App Store" thing throw you off.
  • Step 3: There is nothing (of interest or otherwise) in any corners here. "Lock Screen" is the 3rd item in the list.
  • Step 4: Scroll down on the "Lock Screen" settings page to see the
    "Screen Saver Settings" link.
  • Step 4.1: Select "Photos" in the "Screen saver" field.
  • Step 4.2: Click the "Settings" button.
  • Step 5: Select the pictures via the "browse" button in the pop-up window that results from step 4.2.
  • Step 6: If desired, select slide show speed: "fast," "medium," or "slow."
    • Despite the link they provide for help on the slideshow config settings pop-up, MS provides no guidance on these values, so I don't know if or how they would vary from one platform to another.
    • On my laptop, I observed the following photo update intervals:
      • Fast ≈ 3 sec
      • Medium ≈ 6 or 7 sec
      • Slow ≈ 11 sec.
  • Step 7: The "shuffle pictures" checkbox
    • If set, then the pictures will be displayed in some randomly shuffled order each time the slideshow activates.
      
    • If clear, the slideshows will always sequence through the same pictures in the same order every time the screen saver runs.
    • When I use the "preview" button to check my screen saver config settings, the screen saver slide show always starts with the same picture, and subsequent pix are either shuffled or not. Does the screen saver work the same way as its preview? I can only
      guess.