Windows 7 – How to run slide shows using Windows Photo Viewer

Windows Photo Viewer (previously known as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) is a small but extremely useful application that is installed on every Windows 7 computer, and by default handles all the popular image file types – PNG, BMP, JPG, ICO, GIF etc.

Other than being able to quickly display images, it can also be used to display a slide show of all the images in a folder.

Beginning the slide show is as simple as clicking on the blue button at the bottom centre of the window.

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Once in slide show mode, if you right click on the image you will have some additional options.

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Shuffle

Loop

Slide Show Speed – Slow

Slide Show Speed – Medium

Slide Show Speed – Fast

 

The options all sound simple enough, but one question always remains – what speed does slow, medium, fast work at?

Slow changes the image every 10 seconds, medium every 5 seconds and fast every 3 seconds.

 

To finish the slide show press Esc (escape) on your keyboard.