Solved Cannot set pictures as desktop background

[dougglos]

I have saved quite a few pictures of some of the famous places in the world, and until recently I have used some of them to change the background on my desktop. But now, clicking on a picture to "Set as Desktop Background" has absolutely no effect. It does give me a fair number of plain coloured backgrounds, but that is obviously not what I'm looking for! Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[DaveA]

Try right clicking the background and then "Personalize"
Then in the drop down select "Slideshow"
Then Browse to the folder that you wish to use.

 

[dougglos]

Have followed your advice as far as "Slideshow", but pressing "Browse" does nothing for me. The pictures I saved (as mentioned) are all showing in "My PC/Documents" and if I click on one, it fills the screen, but clicking on "Set as Desktop Background" has absolutely no effect, I'm afraid!

 

[DaveA]

These are the settings I have and they work, see the attachment.
The "Trees" folder is a subfolder under Pictures.

Is there any images in the Documents folder, the images should be in the Pictures" folder which is under Documents.

 

[dougglos]

I have exactly the same as your attachment, but as I said, pressing Browse has no effect, whereas I have about thirty pictures are all available under "Documents". The only problem is that none of them will allow me to set them as a desktop background. That is to say nothing happens when I try to do so.

 

[DaveA]

Then move them to the Pictures folder or a subfolder under Pictures.
I think that the documents folder is normally not used for images, the system settings does not think that images should not be there.

 

[dougglos]

No joy, I'm afraid - I moved a few pictures from "My Documents" to the "Pictures" folder easily enough, but clicking on "Set as Desktop Background" still has no effect whatsoever!, and I am still left with a plain coloured background.

 

[DaveA]

Did you select the Picture folder or is it still Documents?

 

[dougglos]

I used "This PC/Pictures" and although the thumbnail pictures appear there, they still do not successfully set as desktop items when I click on that phrase.

 

[DaveA]

Post a screen shot of your settings?

 

[dougglos]

Sorry - wouldn't know how to do that - could you please give me all the stages so that I can?

 

[DaveA]

Have a read at https://forums.techguy.org/help/screenshot/

 

[dougglos]

Thanks for that - but which settings am I looking for to take a screenshot of?

 

[DaveA]

As shown in Post #4 above that shows my settings.
Post the same pane of your machine?

 

[dougglos]

Hope this is what you need !!