Windows 10: Set desktop background to slide show a different image per monitor.

Hi all,

Shortly after I upgraded to Win 10 I went to the control panel to set up my desktop background to slide show through a specific folder of images. This worked fine but had an unexpected side effect; each one of my monitors (I've 3) showed a different image from the slide show. Right clicking on the desktop and choosing "Next desktop background" would change just one monitor's image, doing it again would change another and doing it again would change the third.

As I said this was unexpected as I was on Win 7 previously where the monitors always showed the same image in the slide show. However I decided I liked the effect and left it at that. When I restarted my machine I found it had returned to the old Win 7 behaviour; same image on each monitor and using the "Next desktop background" option changed all the monitors to the same new image. No I could find no way to return to the other behaviour until I restarted again and found it had returned of it's own accord.

I have since restarted multiple times and now seem to be stuck with the Win 7 behaviour with the added note that the backgrounds are changing more often than they should. They are set to a 30 minute interval and they generally stick to that but as I wrote that last sentence they changed twice in quick succession (about 5 seconds apart...).

Ideally I would like to get back to having a different slide show on each monitor. Anyone know how?

Thanks in advance!

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Displaying the same slideshow background on multiply displays

Does this work in Windows 10?

"8. To Set a Single Picture as Desktop Background for All Monitors

NOTE: If you have more than one monitor, then the same selected picture will display on all monitors.

A) Click/tap on a image to select (check) it, then go to step 11 below.

OR

B) Right click or press and hold on an image, and click/tap on either Set as desktop background (one monitor) or Set for all monitors (multiple monitors), then go to step 11 below."

How to Change Your Desktop Background and Slide Show in Windows 8 and 8.1

Desktop Background - Change in Windows 8

 

Different Background for Multiple Desktops

Multiple monitors is so common these days, why does it take a google search to figure out how to have different background images on each monitor? Even then, most of the results didn't get you into the old control panel function and you can't turn off the
slide show function.

Please, in a future update, make it easy to have different static background images on each monitor. This was easy in the past, it should be even easier now.