The Settings app in Windows 10 and 11 doesn’t let you change the duration of the desktop background slideshow to less than one minute. You wonder if there is a way to set the slideshow duration to something other than the pre-defined timing, for example, 10 seconds.
Change Desktop Background Slideshow duration to less than 1 minute
The Personalization option in the Settings app doesn’t let you set the slideshow duration to less than a minute. However, there are two workarounds:
Method 1: Use the classic wallpaper applet
To open the classic wallpaper page, press Win + R, then type:
shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\pageWallpaper
Click OK.
You can set the duration on this page to as low as “10 seconds”.
Tips
1) If the above command is complex to type every time, you can create a desktop shortcut for the following:
explorer shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\pageWallpaper
(or)
2) Add it to the classic Control Panel using a registry tweak. See How to Add Classic Desktop Background and Colors Applets to Control Panel.
Method 2: Use the Registry Editor
Launch regedit.exe and go to the following registry branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Personalization\Desktop Slideshow
In the right pane, double-click “Interval”.
Set the wallpaper duration (in milliseconds). For example, to set the duration to 20 seconds, assign the value data of 20000. (i.e., 20 x 1000ms). To set it to 2 minutes, assign the value data of 120000 (i.e., 120 seconds x 1000ms).
Exit the Registry Editor.
Log off from your user account and log in again for the change to take effect.
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