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Changing the Windows 10 Lock screen slideshow layout

Changing the Windows 10 Lock screen slideshow layout

July 28, 2020

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When the Windows 10 Lock screen background is set to a slideshow, images are displayed in a collage layout.
I will change it so the slideshow displays one image at a time.
This guide uses Windows 10 Education 2004 (19041.388).


Edit the registry

Open Registry Editor (Win + R -> regedit) and go to the following path.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lock Screen

Create a DWORD (32-bit) Value named SlideshowLayout.

Registry Editor with the SlideshowLayout DWORD value

Valid values are 1 through 9, with the following meanings:

  1. One image in a horizontal layout
  2. Two images in a horizontal tile layout
  3. Three images in a horizontal tile layout
  4. Four images in a horizontal tile layout
  5. Five images in a horizontal tile layout
  6. Six images in a horizontal tile layout
  7. One image in a vertical layout
  8. Two images in a vertical tile layout
  9. Three images in a vertical tile layout

The slideshow starts from the last digit. If you set it to 311, images are displayed in the order 1 -> 1 -> 3.

I use the DWORD value 1.

Registry Editor showing SlideshowLayout set to 1

References

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/lock-screen-slideshow-showing-tiled-photos/4d56e24c-a353-4c93-ac61-fc2159033a6e [Archived]

https://superuser.com/questions/1243643/is-there-a-way-to-get-a-windows-10-lock-screen-slide-show-without-tiling-or-zoom [Archived]

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