I’ve been updating my unattended windows deployment setup recently, and one of the things I wanted to enable was the slideshow wallpaper with the location set to my wallpapers location on my server. This isn’t as straight-forward as it ought to be, but after bit of fiddling around I figured out how to do it fairly simply.
2 parts are neede — a reg script and copying a file (which I do via a self-extracting archive file).
رج اسکرپٹ مندرجہ ذیل ہے
ونڈوز رجسٹری ایڈیٹر ورژن 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER کنٹرول پینل شخصی کاری ڈیسک ٹاپ سلائیڈ شو] "وقفہ"= ڈورڈ:000927c0 "شفل کرنا"= ڈورڈ:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER سافٹ ویئر مائیکروسافٹ ونڈوز کرنٹ ورژن ایکسپلورر وال پیپر] "سلائیڈ شو سورس ڈائرکٹریاں سیٹ کریں"= ڈورڈ:00000001 "پس منظر کی قسم"= ڈورڈ:00000002 "سلائیڈ شوڈائریکٹریپیٹھ 1"="/طویل بے ترتیب نظر آنے والا تار یہاں جاتا ہے"
Note — you will need to set up the slideshow with the correct path on one of your پی سی and then export the value for “SlideshowDirectoryPath1” from your registry for this to work
دوسرا حصہ سلائڈ شو.ini نامی ایک فائل کاپی کرنا ہے (also after setting up your own slideshow) جس میں رہتا ہے %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
The contents of this file contain an encoded reference to the location of your slideshow I believe.
Once you have copied the file and imported the reg file you just need to restart explorer or wait for the interval period to pass (میرا سیٹ ہے 10 minutes) and I have shuffle turned on — your values may be different if you set them differently and export the changed values from the registry
I have put my slideshow.ini into a self-extracting exe that extracts to (اور خاموشی سے زیادہ لکھتے ہیں) %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
. میں پھر چلتا ہوں اپنا 2 commands using the following SynchronousCommands in my ImageUnattend.xml
<ہم وقت ساز کمانڈ ڈبلیو سی ایم:کارروائی ="شامل"> <ترتیب>6</ترتیب> <تفصیل>سلائڈ شو محل وقوع مرتب کریں</تفصیل> <کمانڈ لائن>ج:\ایکسٹراز slideshow.exe</کمانڈ لائن> </ہم وقت ساز کامانڈ> <ہم وقت ساز کمانڈ ڈبلیو سی ایم:کارروائی ="شامل"> <ترتیب>7</ترتیب> <تفصیل>سلائڈ شو کو قابل بنائیں</تفصیل> <کمانڈ لائن>ج:\ایکسٹراز-ایلیویٹ-سی ریگ امپورٹ سی:\ایکسٹراز سلائیڈ شو.ریگ</کمانڈ لائن> </ہم وقت ساز کامانڈ>
For more information about my use of the command “elevate” and having files in the c:\extras folder please read my previous article about how I used a “بیچ اسکرپٹ محفوظ DHCP نام کی بنیاد پر پی سی کا نام تبدیل کریں"
Seems Microsoft has changed something, or they don’t do it the same for all configurations. When I turn on slidshow for my reference PC, there is no slideshow.ini file to copy in %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes. Instead, to files get created named transcoded_000 and transcoded_001.
It’s almost like Microsoft doesn’t want us to be able to easily control slideshow using scripts.
Hi James
These instructions were for Windows 10 — they still seem to work for that. Are you using windows 11? If so no doubt Microsoft will have changed things for no good reason
Also note — I had to create a slideshow for these files and settings to appear. I then copied the file to other machines to make this work. So if you haven’t first set up a slide show then I guess the ini file won’t exist
Hi James
I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2) and there is definitely still a slideshow.ini in that folder
It is a hidden file by default so you would need to change explorer options to view hidden files