A Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Slideshow of Your Desktop Background in Windows 11

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The post provides a guide on how to use and customize the slideshow wallpaper feature in Windows 11. It involves creating a folder of desired images, accessing the personalization settings, and selecting the folder for slideshow display. Steps are detailed for navigating to the requisite settings pane and selecting slideshow frequencies or screen fit options.

This post shows students and new users how to create wallpaper slideshow and replace the desktop background on Windows 11 with photos or images that are special to them. This might help users who want to display photos of family, pets, or other important people and places in their lives.

Windows 11 will allow you to change the desktop background with any photo you like. You can also create a slideshow of images in the folders you want to display. You don’t have to settle for default pictures with your computer. Go and personalize your desktop to suit your taste.

To create a slideshow, you must create a folder and add as many images as possible you want to display. Then go to the personalization settings pane and choose the folder with the images.

Creating wallpaper slideshow is nothing new. This feature has been part of Windows since XP. You can do this in the Windows settings pane, under Personalization, or by right-clicking a blank area on the desktop and selecting Personalization to take you to the settings pane.

To get started changing Windows 11 background with a slideshow of your images, follow the steps below:

How to create wallpaper slideshows in Windows 11

The steps below show them how to replace the default desktop background with a photo slideshow of their choosing.

Windows 11 has a centralized location for the majority of its settings. Everything can be done, from system configurations to creating new users and updating Windows from its System Settings pane.

To get to System Settings, you can use the Windows key + I shortcut or click on Start ==> Settings, as shown in the image below:

Alternatively, you can use the search box on the taskbar and search for Settings. Then select to open it.

Windows Settings pane should look similar to the image below. In Windows Settings, click Personalization, and select Background on the right pane of your screen shown in the image below.

The Background section’s option lets you create a background from a picture, a color, or a slideshow. A slideshow is a combination of photos that automatically changes at preset intervals.

If you have multiple images you want to set as desktop backgrounds, then select Slideshow instead of Picture from the drop-down options.

Once you select Slideshow, click the Browse button to browse your photo album containing all the images you want to display as a slideshow.

Browse to where you have your photos and select it. Background files can be stored as BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, DIB, or PNG.

Your images will immediately begin as a slideshow of your desktop background. By default, images are changed every 30 minutes. If you want it changes quickly, select 1 minute.

Photos in the selected folder will begin playing as a slideshow immediately.

Windows tries to choose the best-looking setting for your photos. Not all photos will fit neatly on your desktop, especially if your desktop is quite large. Small photos might not look as good on your desktop and may need to be stretched to fit the screen, making it look distorted. If the background photo you select doesn’t fit or looks right on the desktop background, try the Fill or Fit option to select a good fit for your desktop. 

That should do it! Windows should start playing your photos as a slideshow.

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to create a background slideshow in Windows 11. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.


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4 responses to “A Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Slideshow of Your Desktop Background in Windows 11”

  1. b_reasonable Avatar
    b_reasonable

    Looking for just being able to do an immediate (not saved, not used as screen saver, not a lock screen) just a quick slide show of a selected folder/file or individual photos. A quick look at the photos you’ve taken so you can choose what needs to be tossed, what needs to be massaged, etc. It was in Windows 10 File Explorer under Picture format . . . Where is it now?

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