#WINDOWS 8 SLIDE SHOW WINDOWS 8.1#
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#WINDOWS 8 SLIDE SHOW WINDOWS#

вЂњWhen my PC is inactive, show the lock screen instead of turning off the screen.вЂќ Your monitor might have been set to turn off after 15 minutes, but the slide show will keep going for as long as the setting below that switch вЂ“ one hour, three hours, forever. The other defaults are fine, but note one in particular. I pointed my lock screen at the folder that has all 15,000 of our family photos, and did not include other folders with clip art and screen shots. Once youвЂ™ve chosen a specific subfolder, for example, you can go back and remove the entire Pictures folder (click once and a Remove button appears).

If you want to narrow it down or choose a particular set of pictures, you can add or remove folders to limit whatвЂ™s displayed. By default it includes the Pictures folder on your computer and the Pictures folder in OneDrive вЂ“ and it does not include the Camera Roll folder, in case you havenвЂ™t deleted embarrassing photos from your phone yet. You can choose the folder(s) with the pictures that will be displayed. Turn on the switch to вЂњplay a slide show on the lock screen.вЂќ

Or, from the Start screen, type Lock Screen and click on Lock Screen Settings.

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Bring out the Charms bar (swipe in from the right, or hit Windows key + C), then click on Settings / Change PC Settings / Lock Screen.ItвЂ™s particularly satisfying on dual monitors вЂ“ different pictures appear on each monitor at different intervals. I have found myself (and my wife, and my mom, and my clients) locking the computer on purpose so we can watch photos for a few minutes. If you have family pictures or photos from years of trips, itвЂ™s hard not to stop and stare at the rotating lock screen display for a while.

#WINDOWS 8 SLIDE SHOW WINDOWS 8.1#

ItвЂ™s new in Windows 8.1 thereвЂ™s nothing like it in Windows 7 and the only option in Windows 8 was to choose a single static photo for the lock screen. In Windows 8.1, Microsoft made the lock screen more dynamic by adding this feature to display random photos, cycling through full-screen displays of single images and occasional collages of several pictures. Most of us are accumulating huge numbers of photos but we seldom go back and look through them and there hasnвЂ™t been any easy way to create random displays. Screensavers went out of fashion because flat-screen displays do not suffer from burned-in images and our computers have gotten much better about turning off the monitor instead to save power. In the distant past we had screensavers that could display photos (or flying toasters). By default Windows 8 shows a stylized drawing of the Seattle skyline and Windows 8.1 shows bright curved rainbow stripes.

Hit a key, type in your password, and itвЂ™s gone. Most of you see it briefly when the computer restarts or when you come back to the computer after the monitor has turned off. The lock screen is the full-screen picture that comes up before you log in to Windows 8. ItвЂ™s a surprisingly fun distraction if you have an ever-expanding collection of photos. Windows 8.1 can display a slide show of your photos on the lock screen.

Windows 8 slide show