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Is there a location in the registry that allows me to select all pictures in a folder for the Win7 wallpaper rotation?
When my laptop goes off and on the docking station, that selection is somehow lost, and the wallpaper is fixed to one image. I want to be able to run a batch command that sets (in the registry) that selection to rotate all images again.
But I can't find the location of that checkbox in the registry anywhere so far.
dutchkevin
Posted 2013-06-19T06:55:50.167
Reputation: 11
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No need for registry
ATTRIB -H %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini
ECHO.>%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini
ATTRIB +H %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\slideshow.ini
Run that as a batch file, and restart.
Also just fyi the images that it would use are in the following location.
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles
Ash King
Posted 2013-06-19T06:55:50.167
Reputation: 1 175
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This sounds like an XY problem, and a batch file or registry edit shouldn't be required. What's happening is that by default your active power plan pauses the desktop wallpaper slide show when you switch to battery mode from being plugged in. You can change this easily if required:
Search for "power options" in the Start Menu search box
Next to the active power plan, click Change plan settings
Click Change advanced power settings
Expand Desktop background settings and then Slide show
Select Available instead of Paused for the On battery setting, then OK your way out
Karan
Posted 2013-06-19T06:55:50.167
Reputation: 51 857
Hi Karan, thanks for looking at this from a whole different perspective. I checked the settings and found that they were alreade set to "Available". So that doesn't seem to be the cause of the issue. – dutchkevin – 2013-06-20T06:11:29.340
Just to confirm, when it's on the docking station the slide show works, but when it's off it the wallpaper's static? Also, which laptop is this? – Karan – 2013-06-20T16:18:22.703
1Hi Ash, thanks for the help. I just tried to find the folders you point to. however i can only see that one picture is in there, named "TranscodedWallpaper.jpg". Once I activate the "Select All" from the normal wallapaper configurator screen, I see no other files in there, and no folder names "CashedFiles". Am I missing something there? – dutchkevin – 2013-06-19T12:05:51.497
1And you write that i would need to restart. My intention is to do this without a reboot, that's why i had aimed at a batch or similar. – dutchkevin – 2013-06-19T12:12:38.290