# Windows 7 slide show wallpaper: Any way to make it more than 1 day?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 10, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947 "2013-12-10T02:58:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947/1 "2013-12-10T02:58:11Z")

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Windows 7 allows you to define wallpaper as a slide show and lets you rotate the image in intervals of 10 seconds up to 1 day. But I’d rather do it for a week. Is there a config file where this interval is stored that I can update manually? Or maybe a Registry setting?

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947/2 "2013-12-10T03:14:21Z")

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never tried it before so do so under your own risk and backup your registry:

HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Control Panel\Personalization\Desktop Slideshow

modify the value for interval, it should be in milliseconds.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947/4 "2013-12-11T12:20:27Z")

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reported the message from **susu201312** as spam

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**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-7-slide-show-wallpaper-any-way-to-make-it-more-than-1-day/675947/5 "2013-12-11T12:23:23Z")

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I can confirm that doing what **shijinn** describes above works, but if you reopen the personalization window the interval will be reset to 1 day and you have to edit the registry again.