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View as Slideshow on Secondary Monitor

Anonymous
2011-02-23T12:53:28+00:00

My computer has a projector connected via a graphics card and the desktop is extended. The primary monitor is the computer desktop. This functionality is required for an application called EasyWorship which displays songs and bible readings to a church congregation.

Occasionally, someone wants a collection of photos to be displayed as a rolling slideshow. This is difficult to achieve with EW but easy in WinXP using the View As Slideshow feature in Explorer. But this only displays on the primary monitor. Even if I drag the Explorer window to the secondary monitor and View as Slideshow, the sequence only displays on the primary monitor.

The current workaround is to create a quick photo album using Microsoft PowerPoint, where one or more folders of photos can be inserted into slides with a few clicks. The presentation can then be ewasily imported into EW and shown on the projector. If the presentation is saved as a continuous loop, it will loop in EW.

How do I get Explorer to display photo slideshows on the secondary monitor?

Richard

Windows XP Pro

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-17T09:32:17+00:00

    Unfortunately, the reply above provided only a link and not the steps and the link is not functional anymore.

    Here's what I found on a cached copy on Google Search. (...and it works! Phew!!!)

    1. In Windows Photo Viewer, start the slide show by pressing the Play button or F11.

    2. Press the Windows Key + Shift + Right Arrow (or left arrow if your secondary display is configured to the left) keys to move the slide show to the secondary display.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-05-08T20:56:36+00:00

    I tried this but I couldn't do what I wanted. This is my conclusion - because my primary monitor screen is higher resolution than my secondary monitor, not all the pixels could be displayed on the secondary and the rest appeared on the primary.

    I ran a search and found Multishow (http://www.mediachance.com/free/multishow.htm). This what I will use.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-01T16:08:26+00:00

    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/27314-windows-photo-viewer-slide-show-secondary-monitor.html

    This worked for me. Simple keyboard short-cut for transposing which monitor shows the slideshow. I'm running 8.1 but the keyboard short-cut was the same.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-02-24T14:16:35+00:00

    You can either drag and drop or maximize the slide show it if it is extended mode.

    I cannot drag the Explorer view after I have clicked the View as Slideshow option, as there is no title bar and it operates in full-screen mode. If I press Escape, the slideshow view is closed.

    I didn't find the mentioned support article helpful.

    Richard

    Office 2007 on Windows 7 Pro

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-24T06:12:42+00:00

    Hi,

    You can set the other monitor as primary, but it is not possible to specify the default screen that it uses. You can either drag and drop or maximize the slide show it if it is extended mode. You have check with some third party application whether you are able to do this or not.

    Also, I would suggest you to refer the article mentioned below.

    How To Configure and Use Multiple Monitors in Windows XP

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307873

    Thank you and Regards.

    Thahaseena M

    Microsoft Answers Support Engineer.

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