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Having trouble with my screensaver

Anonymous
2025-05-20T00:57:56+00:00

Hi have had 2 monitors setup for a while and have been using wallpaper engine.

wall paper engine only worked on 1 monitor fully, and displayed on second monitor for a brief time, until the screensaver went through to a slide show. cancelling the wallpaper engine image.
ignored it for awhile now but its starting to annoy me.

The slideshow goes through 2 images only - the sheep in like an old game style graphic and then just some generic black one with some gold art.

Ive now added a third monitor tonight, giving me the push to sort this out.

if i try to change the theme, it blacks out the 3 monitor (screensaver only) and reverts the theme on all monitors after a few seconds. the monitor that wallpaper engine has always worked on is not effected. if i change to a picture it only works on the top 3rd monitor. if i right click the image to change display nothing happens.

Im basically fully locked out of changing this one display and its stuck in this slideshow and over rights the wallpaper engine every shift it does.

what is going on?????????? also will remove all my apps and buff for 20 seconds every so often on 1 of my screens...

brand new gaming pc too has always had this issue from start up.

thanks,

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Display and graphics

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-20T04:40:54+00:00

    Hey there! My name is Jason one of your Team here in Microsoft Community Just like you i am also helping our Community by sharing thoughts and ideas.

    So You're experiencing an ongoing Windows background/theme/screensaver conflict—presumably from Windows Personalization settings (Themes/Slideshow) taking priority over Wallpaper Engine on particular monitors. Introduce a third monitor and probably some Display Registry corruption or sync problems, and you've got chaos.

    I sort some information to help you out Jarrod

    1. Disable Windows Slideshow

    Go to : Settings → Personalization → Background

    -Change Background to: Picture or Solid Color

    -Make sure Slideshow is NOT selected

    -Scroll down and ensure "Choose albums for your slideshow" is empty or points to an empty folder

    then Settings → Personalization → Lock screen

    -Set Lock screen background to Picture

    -Turn Off any "Use slideshow on lock screen" toggle

    1. Fully Reset Theme & Background Sync

    Go to : Settings → Accounts → Sync your settings

    -Turn off Theme sync

    then open nginx Settings → Personalization → Themes

    Switch to the Default Windows theme

    Wait 10–15 seconds for the theme to fully reset

    Reboot your PC before moving on.

    3 Force Disable Screensaver

    Do this: mathematica

    Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Change screen saver

    -Set Screensaver to None

    -Click Apply

    Also check Power Options: Bash - Settings → System → Power & battery → Screen and sleep

    Make sure no auto-sleep/screen-off timeout is set too aggressively (e.g. 1 minute)

    4 Fix Monitor Background Assignments (Registry)

    Press Win + R, type: regedit, press Enter

    Navigate to: mathematica

    copy and paste this

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

    Look for keys like:

    -TranscodedImageCount

    -TranscodedImageCache

    -Wallpaper

    -WallpaperStyle

    You can delete these safely (Windows will regenerate them on reboot)

    Navigate to:

    Copy Edit

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers

    Delete any non-default values

    Then reboot and try again.

    Hope that will help

    best regards

    Jason

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