Oct 03, 2012  To display slides in random order, select “Shuffle slide order.” If you don’t see this option, play the slideshow, move the pointer to make the slideshow controls appear, and then click the.

Yesterday, I shared with you how to enable the wallpaper Slideshow feature in Windows 10 and how to get it to work when on your laptop battery.

The Slideshow option is not a new feature as it has been in previous versions of Windows. In fact, some users noticed you cannot set your Slideshow faster than once a minute. For most users, this is probably okay. However, Microsoft did not block this; they merely buried it in the old Control Panel.

Even better? This trick lets you get access to the shuffle feature as well!

How to enable Shuffle and short intervals for Slideshow

1. Open Run

Use the keyboard command Win + R to launch the Run window

2. Shortcut to Control Panel

You could navigate and dig deep to get to this old Control Panel setting, or just copy paste this into the Run window: control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper and then hit OK. This is a direct route to this setting.

3. More settings!

You should notice new timing options near the bottom, including 10 and 30-second intervals along with more options for various hours. Just pick the one you want and hit Save changes.

4. Set Shuffle

Near the bottom, you should also notice the Shuffle option is now listed here as well. Simply check the box and hit Save changes Luxor big fish games. when finished.

5. Enable on battery?

Yesterday, I demonstrated how you can dig deep into your power settings to make Slideshow run on a battery. Microsoft disables this by default as it could potentially be a small battery drain depending if you set it for every 10 seconds, for example. Turns out, you can enable or disable it here too. Choose what you want and click Save changes to keep them.

Wrapping up

I am not sure why some of these settings are missing from the new Settings in Windows 10. My guess is Microsoft (a) ran out of time to finish porting them or (b) did not want to present too many options to users, especially since it may not be used very often.

Whatever the reason, now you know how to get around them and make you wallpaper new every 10 seconds!

Big thanks toMark Turner6for the tip in comments!

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Although on-screen PowerPoint’s digital slides look similar in shape to playing cards, they don’t have the exact same ability to be shuffled. While this will save you a game of 52 Pick Up, it means a slight restriction on flexibility when you want to change or randomize your presentation. There’s a workaround on one of PowerPoint’s ribbons that you can use to ensure different employees get a different hiring test or that customers view products in a different order. You can also just try out several ways to present your slides before actually making the big presentation.

Step 1

Launch PowerPoint and open the presentation with the slides to shuffle.

Step 3

Click the “Slide Sorter.” Depending on how large your presentation is, your slide deck will appear in columns and rows with smaller versions of the slides depicted, with a gray background. They are ordered linearly from left to right in rows.

Step 4

Click one slide. Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag and drop it in a new place in the deck. This is your manual version of shuffling. The slides adjust to their new order.

Step 5

Click another slide and drag and drop it into place. Continue until you have shuffled the order to your preferences.

Step 6

Resave the presentation with a new name. It’s a little easy to try to close the program and say “Yes” to Microsoft’s Save prompt, or to press “Ctrl-S” yourself, but you don’t want to overwrite the presentation’s original, pre-shuffling order. Rename the slideshow file via the File tab’s “Save As” option, select where to save it and click the “Save” button.

About the Author

Fionia LeChat is a technical writer whose major skill sets include the MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher), Photoshop, Paint, desktop publishing, design and graphics. LeChat has a Master of Science in technical writing, a Master of Arts in public relations and communications and a Bachelor of Arts in writing/English.