Windows – Prevent Windows from silently disabling wallpaper slide show

desktop-customizationremote desktopwindows 7

I generally have my wallpaper set to a slide show pulled from a folder that has around 50 images in it. However, this slide show seems to get stopped whenever I RDP into the system. There is no warning given when this happens, and it does not resume the next time that I log in locally. The only way for me to re-start it is to go back into my wallpaper settings and re-select all the pictures in the folder.

Is there a way to keep Windows from stopping the slide show during an RDP session, or at least to ensure that it will properly re-start it when I log in locally again?

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate.

Best Answer

Open the Remote Desktop Connection app, click on "Show Options" and go to the "Experince" tab. There, the default option is "Detect connection quality automatically", set that to the manual one, which gives you the largest option of bandwidth - see if that helps. Try Satellite, or high-speed broadband...Hope this helps! It has been known that this is a bug in Windows 7, so I'm not 100% sure this will work.

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