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Desktop Personalization background setting changes.

Anonymous
2024-05-11T20:03:29+00:00

I am using Windows 11. I have two desktops configured.

I set my personalize background setting to use a slideshow. This works perfect until I change desktops. If I use my mouse to hover over the desktop icon on the taskbar I will see the same background on the second desktop.

When I select the second desktop initially the background is whatever picture on the first desktop and then it changes to a picture and changes the personalize setting from slideshow to picture.

This use to work and present the same background on both desktops. I had a problem, created by Microsoft, that required me to reset my PC. I performed this reset about a month ago, and I have been reinstalling and configuring software and settings. I can't remember if this has ever worked since I performed the reset, but I know for a fact it worked prior to performing the reset.

I have changed some personalization settings since the reset and maybe one of those caused this to occur. As long as I do not change desktops the slideshow personalization setting remains. The problem only occurs when I change desktops.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-20T16:32:58+00:00

    I tried something else and discovered something that really confuses me. See if this makes any sense to you.

    My wife has a laptop running Windows 11. Before I created a new user I decided to to see if the same thing happened on her laptop and discovered that the slideshow setting stayed the same on a second desktop. So then I started looking to see what was different, and when I made the settings the same on my desktop PC the slideshow setting stayed the same on the second desktop. Here is what I discovered.

    My desktop PC has two internal disk drives. Drive C: is a 500 GB SSD and Drive D: is a 1 TB hard drive. When I configured my desktop I created a "Users" folder on D: with the same name as the "Users" folder on C: and changed the locations of all of the Windows folders that had the "location" option from C: to D:. My goal was preserve as much available space on the SSD for programs / files that had to install on C:. I used the "mklink" command to move Outlook files to D: and all of this works perfect.

    My wife is using the downloaded Alaskan Theme. I downloaded the Alaskan Theme and everything worked, on my desktop. I discovered that I had to change the desktop setting on the second desktop to "slideshow". After changing the setting on both desktops the slideshow worked. and the setting stayed. I then went back to the slideshow folder I had on D: and everything stayed. The path to the the Alaskan Theme is in the "appdata" folder on C:.

    Is it possible that when I downloaded the Alaskan Theme a setting was changed that I probably changed when I configured my PC? If this is what happened do you have any idea what was changed?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-13T07:50:34+00:00

    Hello，BillCone

    Thank you for posting in the Microsoft community.

    Thank you for your feedback, I tested the issue by following the steps you described: creating two desktops, changing the background of the first desktop to a slideshow, then selecting the second desktop and checking the personalization settings and background, but it did not reproduce your issue. We suspect that what you're experiencing may be an exception that requires feedback, but would appreciate further testing:

    Create a new account, log in to the new account, and see if the problem persists. If the issue doesn't occur in the new account, or may be related to the original user settings or configuration file, follow the steps below: Create a local user or administrator account in Windows - Microsoft Support

    If the problem still exists after testing, you can record a simple video to share your process and scenario with me via screenshot tool, we will test and check further.

    Looking forward to your reply, it will help us a lot.

    Best Regards，

    Rota|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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