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How To Set Photos As Screen Saver In Windows 10/11

Last Updated on July 8, 2024 by admin 16 Comments

­The original purpose of the screen saver feature was to prevent burn-in in CRT displays. These days, users need not worry about burn-ins thanks to LCD and LED technologies. This could be the reason why Microsoft is no longer adding new screen savers.

Today, most users use the screen saver feature to improve privacy when they are not around. Turning on and using the screen saver feature in Windows 10 reasonably easy, although you need to perform a few more clicks than earlier to open Screen saver settings.

In addition to built-in screen savers, there are third-party tools available to set your own video file as a screen saver in Windows. Photo management software such as Google Picasa offers an option to use photos as screen savers.

Use photos as screen saver in Windows 10/11

Luckily, you don’t need to use a third-party tool to set photo(s) as a screensaver on your Windows 10/11 computer. You can use the built-in screensaver feature in Windows 10/11 to set pictures as a screensaver. Here is how to do it.

You can either set a single photo or multiple photos as a screen saver in Windows 10/11. When you set multiple photos, Windows 10/11 will show these photos as a slideshow, when the screen saver is running.

Also read: How to enable screen saver in Windows 11.

Set photos as screen saver in Windows 10/11

Complete the given below directions to make Windows 10 use photo(s) as a screensaver.

Step 1: Open the Settings app. Navigate to Personalization > Lock Screen page.

Step 2: Scroll down the Lock Screen settings page to see the Screen Saver settings (Windows 10) or Screen saver (Windows 11) link. Click Screen Saver settings/Screen saver link to open the classic Screen Saver Settings dialog.

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Step 3: From the list of screen savers available, choose Photos from the drop-down dialog.

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Step 4: By default, Windows 10/11 uses photos saved in the Pictures folder for the screen saver. If you want to change this location, click the Settings button to open Photos Screen Saver Settings dialog.

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Step 5: Click the Browse button, select a folder, and then click the Ok button. Click Apply. That’s it! Note that if there are sub folders under the selected folder, photos in sub-folders will be used for screen savers as well.

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As you can see in the picture above, you can also see slide show speed of photos screen saver. There is even an option to shuffle images.

From now onwards, Windows 10/11 will use the photos saved in the selected folder for the picture screen saver.

You might also like to know how to set a screen saver as a desktop background in Windows.

Filed Under: Windows 10 Tagged: Customize Windows 10, Screen Savers, Windows 11

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Comments

  1. Chris says

    November 13, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    I want my screen saver to show screens with multiple photos from my pictures folder – any help for that?

  2. Elaine N. Cortina says

    January 13, 2023 at 1:49 am

    Want to delete it. I get some photos I don’t like and they stay for too long. It is slowing down the opening of my desk top. Want to get rid of it.

  3. Chanman says

    August 11, 2022 at 3:19 am

    Is there any way to make the slideshow of photos go even slower than the “slow” setting? to me, it is still fast. I would prefer that when My computer go into that mode, I’m not bombarded by a collage of images in the background, but rather that it stay for at least a few minutes at a time.

  4. Sienna Bradshaw says

    July 8, 2022 at 12:45 am

    Hi, My screen saver settings doesn’t give the option for pictures. Only the generic bubbles, ribbons, etc.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks.

  5. Cindy Franks says

    December 10, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    My photos screen saver keeps erroring out. How can I correct this?

  6. Rachel says

    December 7, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    I was hoping to get a slideshow of a variety of old photos, which I otherwise seldom look at, but every time the screen saver starts up, it goes through the same *exact* slideshow every time. It does this whether set on “shuffle” or not. If I switch folders, it similarly starts over with the same slideshow in the new folder every time the screensaver kicks in. I realize screen savers are obsolete as such, but since Windows still offers the feature, it’s a pretty annoying design flaw to be sure.

  7. Travis says

    May 7, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    How come the photos screensaver no longer has the option for the pictures to fade? That is so stupid

  8. Tim says

    March 20, 2019 at 5:26 am

    For years I’ve had a particular folder as my photos slideshow screensaver, now, suddenly, it’s going though all my pictures, how do I change it back to just the folder I want to show?

  9. Paula says

    November 12, 2018 at 12:35 am

    There are wide black borders at the top and bottom of the screensaver display. Is there anyway to remove these?

  10. admin says

    June 18, 2018 at 11:51 am

    Shawna, you need to first import photos from iPhone to your Windows PC. Refer this link for directions: intowindows.com/3-ways-to-transfer-iphone-photos-to-windows-10-pc/

  11. Shawna says

    June 16, 2018 at 3:11 am

    How do I access my photos to use for screensaver that are on my iphone and in the cloud?

  12. Marcia Wahls says

    February 17, 2018 at 7:40 am

    I have my photos set as my screen saver in Windows 10, but to stop the screen saver and return to the desktop and log on screen I have to use CTRL, ALT, DEL. I never had to do this in Windows 7. I’m glad Windows brought the abiltiy to run photos as a screen saver slide show back, but is there something I can do to stop the screen saver just by moving or clicking the mouse?

  13. Sandy says

    January 31, 2018 at 12:05 am

    How can I have the screensaver photos show as different tiles? Mine did that until the last update and now they only show as individual pictures.

  14. John Loch says

    January 30, 2018 at 5:33 am

    With Windows 10, if one wants both auto-rotation of pictures (i.e. portrait or landscape) AND file name showing on the picture, you can’t do it, I’ve found. You can see file names with My Pictures Slideshow screensaver (not sure if Windows 10 has that but you can install that screensaver from older Windows version) OR you can always get the correct orientation of your picture with Photos screensaver but no option for file names. So, neither does both! Frustrating. Any ideas?

  15. kel says

    July 13, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    This is only good if you just have one folder where you save all your pictures in. But if you have pictures grouped in multiple folders, which I think is what’s commonly done, then this procedure does not make that possible. It’s a Windows 10 limitation that they have yet to find a workaround in their upgrade. Let me know if they’ve done it or if you know of another way. Thanks.

  16. Vincent Cadora says

    May 23, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Thank you very much. I have been seeking help for several days on how to get this done. Your procedures worked well and I’m a happy camper. I have printed you instructions anyone can follow for the future.

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