Two annoying screen saver issues...

[Paul H]

I have two W7 issues involving screen saver. I use the "photos" option to
show pictures I keep in a folder named "slideshow".

1) I use an external monitor to provide additional display geography. It
sits to the right and higher than the PC's monitor. My pictures are
truncated at the top, apparently using the height of the external monitor,
but showing the slide show on the PC's screen, that is lower.

2) Vista and earlier used only pictures in the folder I specified. W7 is
apparently looking around for other pictures, so is also showing pictures
that are in other folders. Fortunately I don't have dirty pictures, but it
shows pictures that I randomly took with my digital camera and felt no need
to edit or delete. So dumb pictures of houses, people, etc. are included.
Bummer.

I hope Microsoft corrects these problems, They aren't show stoppers, but
sure are annoying. TIA, Paul

 

[housetrained]

You can tell it to display certain folders - not all your garbage - have you
done that?

 

[SC Tom]

I have two W7 issues involving screen saver. I use the "photos" option to
show pictures I keep in a folder named "slideshow".

1) I use an external monitor to provide additional display geography. It
sits to the right and higher than the PC's monitor. My pictures are
truncated at the top, apparently using the height of the external monitor,
but showing the slide show on the PC's screen, that is lower.

2) Vista and earlier used only pictures in the folder I specified. W7 is
apparently looking around for other pictures, so is also showing pictures
that are in other folders. Fortunately I don't have dirty pictures, but
it
shows pictures that I randomly took with my digital camera and felt no
need
to edit or delete. So dumb pictures of houses, people, etc. are included.
Bummer.

I hope Microsoft corrects these problems, They aren't show stoppers, but
sure are annoying. TIA, Paul

2) If you go to your screen saver settings, click Browse, and select your
slideshow folder, does it seek pictures outside of that folder? I set it up
like that on mine, and the only pictures it shows are the ones in my
c:\slideshow folder.

SC Tom
Win7 Home Premium 32-bit

 

[Paul H]

Thanks - I had set it to my slideshow folder before my in-place upgrade to
W7 home premium. I did not notice that it changed the folder to "pictures".
I have now changed it back.

You can tell it to display certain folders - not all your garbage - have you
done that?

 

[kreed]

I have two W7 issues involving screen saver. I use the "photos" option to
show pictures I keep in a folder named "slideshow".

1) I use an external monitor to provide additional display geography. It
sits to the right and higher than the PC's monitor. My pictures are
truncated at the top, apparently using the height of the external monitor,
but showing the slide show on the PC's screen, that is lower.

2) Vista and earlier used only pictures in the folder I specified. W7 is
apparently looking around for other pictures, so is also showing pictures
that are in other folders. Fortunately I don't have dirty pictures, but
it
shows pictures that I randomly took with my digital camera and felt no
need
to edit or delete. So dumb pictures of houses, people, etc. are included.
Bummer.

I hope Microsoft corrects these problems, They aren't show stoppers, but
sure are annoying. TIA, Paul

If you drag a window to another monitor BEFORE making it Full-screen,
Windows will adjust the content to fit the screen.
K