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It looks like the only option for multiple images is a slide show. I set my change time to 1 day. I can then use Next background to switch it back.
It looks like the only option for multiple images is a slide show. I set my change time to 1 day. I can then use Next background to switch it back.
Naw, OP is just confused and is (ab)using) Slideshow to set Single Picture mode. Cyberghost's post here:
* Setting different Backgrounds for Dual Monitors in Windows 10
lets you stay out of Slideshow mode but still set a picture for monitor via right-clicking on the particular images you want in that interface.
They also added this feature to the 'normal' Settings page in Windows Insider beta build 10525.
I was there and used that panel, but now I realize the reason I wasn't getting the different monitor choices when right-clicking is because I had two images selected. After clearing the selections I was then able to get the monitor selection when right-clicking on an image. Thanks!
There is no option for setting image for either monitor. Right-clicking brings up "Set as slideshow". The "Shuffle" setting is UNchecked. "Change pictures every 30 minutes" is selected, and there is no "Off" selection, that is the default.
I saw something on another website for editing the registry, I will have to try that.
To summarize, I selected 2 images in the same folder and right-clicked and set as background. Now I have 2 monitors with separate backgrounds. Perfect, except they keep changing back and forth. I want to "freeze" them as the background for that monitor specifically, as others have stated.
Nope, does not work. Background images still switch. There is no right-click option to set monitor. Right clicking the images brings up "set as slideshow" popup, nothing else.
***Just a thought, maybe it's the difference between laptop and desktop perhaps? I am using a laptop with a second monitor.***
Ok, apparently, you have to RE-do the whole WINDOWS+R then enter "control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper" EVERY TIME you unplug the external monitor and plug it back in.
But THEN it works... until the next time...
Hmm, his looks like a new feature.
I right-click on the desktop and select Personalize. There's a Background option drop-down with three selections: Picture, Solid Color, and Slide Show. Selecting Picture shows some pictures and a Browse option. If I right-click on a displayed image I can set for all monitors or either of the monitors. Looks like they're listening ...