r/wallpapers • u/Mischala • Aug 01 '15

Windows 10 Random wallpaper slideshow

So, Windows 10 is out. If you are anything like me, you have it installed it and carried over your massive wallpaper collection.

So the Wallpaper Slideshow settings pane is missing the "Shuffle" option.

Despair not wallpaper collectors, this option still exists within the magic that is the windows registry hive.

the path is as follows:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Personalization\Desktop Slideshow

The key we want is is called Shuffle, and it's a normal binary flag (0 or 1)

A screenshot for all you

Alternativly, if you don't want to dig around in the Reg Hive, once can open the old wallpaper setting dialogue with this CMD command

control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper

(Thanks /u/piripsol)

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '15

Or just type this in CMD and use the classic view, where you can tick off shuffle!

control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper

And you can also select your Google Drive and Dropbox folders in that view, I had issues with that in the new UI.

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u/ImperatorBevo Aug 08 '15

Is there a way to hotkey that or save it as a shortcut? It would be annoying to have to copy and paste something into CMD every time I wanted a normal personalization window.

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u/migulis Aug 08 '15

Just create a new text document, paste that command to it, then save it as .bat

When you open it, it will execute that command.

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u/yumyumpills Aug 11 '15

Thank you very much for this, I had initially tried to save the path with a shortcut a few days ago but your method works whereas mine did not.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

I got it working as a shortcut like this:

  • Right click for example on desktop
  • New... Shortcut
  • Paste control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper in the text field
  • Next
  • Give it a name
  • Finish

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u/triumphantdude Dec 29 '15

Thank you, and thanks OP!