Windows 10: Windows 10 slideshow. want to select images, not folders

I looked around a bit and could not find an answer to my question. When making a slideshow in Windows 10 for the lock screen and the desktop background can you select individual images from folders instead of selecting an entire folder? Win 7 could do this and i used it and liked it a lot.

It's not a huge deal but i didn't want to make copies of the images to put in a "slideshow" folder and also leave them organized in their original folder so i can actually track them down later.

Just hoping that this minor feature is still here somewhere.

:)

 

Change login background images

As per post by DaveM121 > select 'Slideshow' >select 'Add a folder' > browse & select the folder containing the images you want to display.

 

Win10 does not recognize my images for desktop background

For the slideshow to work you need to select a folder that contains the backgrounds you want to use, rather than selecting individual files within that folder that you want to use.

So if you wanted to use 5 pictures from a list of 100 in your Pictures folder, you would need to create a new folder, say "backgrounds" put those 5 images in that folder.

then in the personalisation screen click on browse and just single click to select the backgrounds folder and "choose this folder" and the slideshow will use the images within this folder

 

Kamina, I had the same question, and eventually found this website, which solved the problem for me: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html
Specifically, go to "Option 6" on that page.

In short:
Bring up a "Run" dialog (windows-key / R)
Paste the following command into it and then hit enter:
control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper
This will bring up a screen that looks very much like the old Windows 7 desktop background screen, with thumbnails of all photos in your wallpaper folder, with the ability to check/un-check individual photos.

Hope this helps!
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Thank you very much, man. I didn't think anyone else cared about this lol. I will try it tonight.