Enable Desktop Background Slideshow in Windows 7

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Video: Enable Desktop Background Slideshow in Windows 7

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Hi. You're watching VisiHow, and this is a tutorial on how to enable a slideshow for the desktop background, in Windows 7 computers.

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   First, right click on the desktop

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   When the context menu opens, click 'Personalize'

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   We will be brought to 'Personalization' section in the Control Panel

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   In this window, we need to press 'Desktop Background'

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   Click it once. The new section will open.

   

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   From this section, we need to select multiple files

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   We can either browse for files on our computer, or choose from the existing Windows library.

   

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   If we want to set specific images, we need to select them, as if we would select other files

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   For example, we can click on this image.

   

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   Then click and hold 'Ctrl'

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   Now, we can select any other images, then they will also be selected

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   To select a picture, hover the mouse over the picture, and then check the box in the upper left corner of the picture

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    Once we have selected all of the pictures that we need, we can set the time period for the pictures to change

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    To do so, click on the drop-down menu, that says '30 minutes'.

    

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    From here, we can select the time periods

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    The minimum is 10 seconds, and the maximum is one day. Let's select 10 seconds.

    

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    An extra setting is to use 'Shuffle'

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    Check it if we want to shuffle the images, uncheck it if you don't.

    

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    Once we're finished, press 'Save changes'

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    Now we can close the Control Panel window

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to enable a slideshow for desktop background on Windows 7 computers

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