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  1. dougglos

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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!
     
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    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.
     

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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    Did you select the Picture folder or is it still Documents?
     
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    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.
     
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    Post a screen shot of your settings?
     
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    Sorry - wouldn't know how to do that - could you please give me all the stages so that I can?
     
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    Thanks for that - but which settings am I looking for to take a screenshot of?
     
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    As shown in Post #4 above that shows my settings.
    Post the same pane of your machine?
     
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    upload_2018-5-18_17-21-32.png

    Hope this is what you need !!
     
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