If you click on the drop-down list next to the Shuffle option, you can select alternative display periods for the photos. Then select the Shuffle option which when selected will periodically change the chosen photo wallpaper. Click on Select all to include all the photos in your slide show. The slide show photo thumbnails are displayed in the window. Drag a smaller selection of photos into that folder, and then select it from the Desktop Background window. Right-click in Windows Explorer, select New and then Folder. If you have lots of photos in the same folder set up a separate slide show photo. Click on Browse, and then select the folder that includes your photographs. From there select Desktop Background to open the window below.įrom the Picture location drop-down list you can select a suitable photo folder for the slide show. To set up a desktop wallpaper slide show, right-click the desktop and select the Personalize option. With Windows 7 you can showcase a variety of your favorite photographs as desktop wallpapers and in gadgets. Whilst you can set up photo slide shows with photography software, the Windows 7 desktop also has slide show options. If you have a great collection of photos in a Windows 7 computer, there are a number of ways to display them.