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![]() ![]() I'm still amazed that Microsoft changed the Windows Background Slideshow, but I'm sure they had their reasons. I might end up with a picture of a nice hike or other trip on one monitor and on another monitor maybe a picture of my knee when they were operating on it, or maybe some other useless pic taken years ago. Not just the good ones, but picture "rejects" that I haven't seen in years. I really like being able to view ALL pictures in the Pictures folder. If it proves over time to do as it seems, I'll be contributing to John's effort. You can have beautiful desktop backgrounds like these See your Google Photos photos by looking at your desktop 2 / 9. I often wondered where some of the more obscure pics were located on my PC. John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the background image on your Windows computer to something awesome (if you’re a Mac user, go here instead ). It also shows the folder location and date for each picture. ![]() John's allows changes as low as 15 seconds and changes the image on all monitors each time. The Windows 10 switcher has a minimum time of 1 minute, changing only one monitor at each 1 minute interval. I'm so glad I did this, because Johns switcher is a much better solution with lots more options. Note on 3rd party apps - When 3rd party apps like John's Background Switcher are used to manage desktop backgrounds (which I used on my older Win10 PC), they typically provide an option to view the current/previous desktop background (if set by the app. I may have been missing something and not doing it right, however, I went and tried another suggestion from the link you posted and downloaded Johns Background Switcher. If you are looking for the location of Lock Screen images, visit this SuperUser question. It just went to the current settings window, not allowing subfolders to be included. I tried the "Libraries" hack described in the link, but it didn't return to the "old style" wallpaper settings for me. ![]()
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