Windows 10: Windows 11: Desktop background keeps resetting from slideshow to a picture.

From Settings > Personalization > Background I select "Slideshow" from dropdown for "Personalize your background", I choose my picture album for a slideshow and set change to every 1 minute, and shuffle on, on battery off, fit to desktop.Close settings and my slideshow begins. However, when I lock screen, or reboot, this setting reverts to "Picture" under "Personalize your background."

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Windows 11, background keep resetting from slideshow to a picture.

Same (or similar) problem here!

I have Windows 11, with multiple virtual desktops (meaning the ones that you can switch pressing the WIN+TAB keys) and also multiple displays (a laptop usually connected with two additional monitors). When I start/restart the PC, the background often resets to a single picture, while I configured a "slideshow". The picture is the same for all the desktop and monitors, while the slideshow mode shows different pictures for each monitor, but the same for each desktop (and I'm fine with that).

Additional information: this is not a clean Windows 11 setup, but an upgrade from Windows 10 (I think this is the most common case at the moment). The slideshow was already set as background in Windows 10, and it was working fine before the upgrade.

In a nutshell, I have to restore the slideshow background configuration manually almost every morning, and that's very annoying.

Any hints?

 

Windows 11, background keep resetting from slideshow to a picture.

I set my background in Windows 11 to a single different picture initially for both of my desktops (I usually keep 2 desktops on my laptop). Then I thought I wanted to set different slideshows for both desktops, then I found out that I could not do that, so I thought of instead setting a single slideshow same for the both. So while it worked, whenever I restart my laptop and change desktop from the opened one to another, both backgrounds get changed back to single pictures. I tried removing one of the desktops and setting the background as slideshow then restart, but then once I again create a new desktop and switch to it, backgrounds get reverted to the single pictures. Why is this happening? and How can I fix this? And can I have different slideshows for different desktops?

 

Windows 11, background keep resetting from slideshow to a picture.

THIS IS THE ONE. I hope everyone sees the notification for this because this fixed it for me. I can switch between desktops and the slideshow keeps working. Thanks for the easy to follow steps @psi_lion.