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Desktop Slide Show keeps failing

I have a folder that contains a collection of photos that I want to use as a desktop slide show. I got to Personalise>Desktop Background Slide Show>Select All>Change Picture Every 10 Seconds>Save Changes and it all works perfectly until I put the computer to sleep. When it wakes up I have to repeat the process, otherwise it just displays one of the photos and the slideshow is gone. I've tried saving a theme but all it does is changes from the saved theme to Unsaved Theme and it's back to one photo.

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Is there a fix?

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Jackie Man

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Lionel MM

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Rob4077

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Hi Jackie Man and Lionelmm, the settings are correct - it's just that it keeps resetting itself. I have a Windows 8 tablet that has similar settings but it works fine. I think it Lionelmm is experiencing similar issues. Could I perhaps set up a VB Script that loops continuously and reinstalls my named theme, though I would need help to set that up too.

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Lionel MM

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Rob4077

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Sorry for o comments but I think my PC has a few more problems to address. I tried a system restore and it won't work. I plan on raising another question about that and once that's been addressed I'd like to come back to this one if it's still a problem. I just don't know how to temporarily park a question

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Rob4077

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No, need to do some homework on how to do that but I am going away for a week so it's going to have to be when I get back. Fortunately my wife bought exactly the same model laptop so hopefully I will be able to work out some way of reloading Windows from that onto my PC without losing all my loaded software.

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Lionel MM

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Rob4077

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Thanks for the suggestions. Backing up data is not an issue. My concern is finding the activation codes for the software I bought over the net. I have a Lenovo e320 ThinkPad with windows 7 home edition. Its the f8 key that brings up the support menu but as I am now working from my mobile phone till I get back I won't be able to see if it has the refresh option you mention.

In view of the time frame should I close the question for now?

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Rob4077

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I am struggling to catch up and need to get my machine running right before giving more thought to the screen background so I am closing the question and as soon as I get a bit of time I will try to reconfigure my machine. Thanks for your help, I will share points based on comments as all of your comments were helpful