If you’d like, you can get fun facts, tips, and other tidbits on your lock screen. The others are down to personal preference. I would recommend leaving “Only use pictures that fit my screen” ticked, as otherwise, you may get square images with black bars around them. Repeat this process for any other folders you’d like to include.

Navigate to your folder and press ‘Choose this folder’.

To do this, just press the “Add a folder” button. You can even add multiple folders if you have images in separate locations. You can now add any folder you like to act as the image source for your slideshow.

Add a folder or folders to your slideshow.

If you want to remove it, first click “Pictures” under the “Choose albums for your slideshow” heading. In my experience, my pictures folder clogs up will all kinds of images that aren’t suitable for a background.

Removing the pictures folder from your slideshowīy default, Windows 10 will use the pictures folder for your slideshow.This is great for family photos, for example. Rather than a single image, this lets you cycle your lock screen background between a group of them. If you’re indecisive like me, you might want to click the “Slideshow” option. You can set it by pressing “Browse”, finding it in File Explorer, and pressing “Open”. This has to be an image you’ve downloaded from the internet rather than a URL.

In certain regions, you may also notice that it displays advertisements.Īs you might expect, the picture option lets you set a custom Windows 10 lock screen wallpaper. Windows spotlight is a feature that automatically downloads beautiful images from Bing to use as your windows background. Click the dropdown beneath to find more options. Then, in the main pane, look for the drop-down underneath “Background”. Press Start and then click the cog above the power button to open the Settings app. However, it is buried under a few settings menus, so we’ll show you how either way. Changing your lock screen in Windows 10 is simple enough that you may not even need our help.

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