This step is entirely optional and will only interest you if you often find yourself relying on your laptop’s battery in which case you will want to minimize the time the screen is on for no reason. You can set it to remain On for up to an hour, or as little as 30 minutes. It can even be set to time out or show your. You can also view your calendar, email, alarms, and local weather. Here you can set how long your screen remains On while the slideshow is running. The lock screen can be customized with your favorite background image or slideshow. Once you’ve set the slideshow images, click the Advanced Slideshow settings options under the list of added folders. The feature reads only PNG photos so make sure none of the files are in JPG or any other format. Any way to disable the animations, and just show a nice fade between each image. The animations looks slightly tacky and strange to me - even mixing multiple images together. Since upgrading to Windows 10, I can either show: One still image. Next, from the ‘Choose albums for your slideshow’ option, click the ‘Add a folder’ button and choose the folder of photos you want to use. On Windows 7, I got a nice slideshow of images when my PC was locked. Click the Lock Screen tab and in the Background dropdown select the ‘Slideshow’ option.
Open the Settings app and go to the Personalization group of settings. Instead of being subject to the same image over and over when you lock your system, you can have it cycle through a personally selected folder of photos.
In Windows 10, you can select any folder full of pictures that the OS will cycle through on your desktop and this feature has been extended to the Lock Screen as well. You can argue that they drag down system resources and slow down processing but the difference they make is very negligible. They make for more versatile themes and they keep the desktop looking fresh. Slideshows on the desktop have long been a part of Windows.