{"id":76240,"date":"2024-08-05T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=76240"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:33:44","slug":"background-slideshow-custom-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/background-slideshow-custom-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set a Custom Duration for Desktop Background Slideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Change Desktop Background Slideshow duration to less than 1 minute<\/h2>\n

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:<\/p>\n

Method 1: Use the classic wallpaper applet<\/h3>\n

To open the classic wallpaper page, press Win + R, then type:<\/p>\n

shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\\pageWallpaper<\/pre>\n
Click OK.<\/p>\n
\"desktop<\/p>\n
You can set the duration on this page to as low as “10 seconds”.<\/p>\n
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Tips<\/h4>\n
1) If the above command is complex to type every time, you can create a desktop shortcut for the following:<\/p>\n
explorer shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921} -Microsoft.Personalization\\pageWallpaper<\/pre>\n
(or)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n
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Method 2: Use the Registry Editor<\/h3>\n
Launch regedit.exe and go to the following registry branch:<\/p>\n
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Personalization\\Desktop Slideshow<\/pre>\n
In the right pane, double-click “Interval”.<\/p>\n
Set the wallpaper duration (in milliseconds). For example, to set the duration to 20 seconds, assign the value data of 20000<\/code>. (i.e., 20 x 1000ms). To set it to 2 minutes, assign the value data of 120000<\/strong><\/code> (i.e., 120 seconds x 1000ms).<\/p>\n
Exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n
Log off from your user account and log in again for the change to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,869],"tags":[381,441,492],"class_list":["post-76240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-personalization","tag-registry","tag-settings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9392,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-use-windows-spotlight-as-desktop-wallpaper-slideshow\/","url_meta":{"origin":76240,"position":0},"title":"How to Use Windows Spotlight as Desktop Wallpaper Slideshow","author":"Ramesh","date":"May 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Windows Spotlight brings fresh wallpaper images for your lock screen daily. 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