Slide Show Viewer for Windows 10 that supports network drives: I've done some searching on UHH and on the web and I'm having difficulty locating viewer software with the following...

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

I've done some searching on UHH and on the web and I'm having difficulty locating viewer software with the following capabilities:

1) Does not require loading the application and generating a new .exe file every time I want to change the content of the slideshow. I want to drop and remove files from a network folder and have the viewer just display the images in the folder in a random fashion. The recommendations that I've seen on UHH all require that you load the software, make edits to add or delete images and generate a new slide show executable.

2) It must work with a network rather than local folder as my images are on a NAS on my network. The Windows screen saver would be a candidate except it does not support images on network drives. They must be local to the computer the screen saver is executing on.

Thanks in advance
Ken

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Look this over.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488238,00.asp

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

dirtpusher wrote:

Look this over.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488238,00.asp

Thanks.
Checking it out now to see if there is a way to have it autorun the slideshow when Windows 10 boots.

Ken

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

stadtmkw wrote:

Thanks.
Checking it out now to see if there is a way to have it autorun the slideshow when Windows 10 boots.

Ken

Don't know how link didn't work

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

dirtpusher wrote:

Don't know how link didn't work

Try this one

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488238,00.asp

I got the original link to work by copying the entire string and pasting it into a browser. Still have not found a way to autostart the photos application in slideshow mode but will keep looking.

Thanks

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

stadtmkw wrote:

I got the original link to work by copying the entire string and pasting it into a browser. Still have not found a way to autostart the photos application in slideshow mode but will keep looking.

Thanks

Good luck

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

I think Windows Explorer, Open With... will get you one of MicroSoft's image viewers wall of which offer a Slide Show that operates as you specify.
I say "I think..." because I'm using a W-7 system and tis too early in the morning to open my W-10 device; 7 does as I state and I believe 10 does also..

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

BboH wrote:

I think Windows Explorer, Open With... will get you one of MicroSoft's image viewers wall of which offer a Slide Show that operates as you specify.
I say "I think..." because I'm using a W-7 system and tis too early in the morning to open my W-10 device; 7 does as I state and I believe 10 does also..

In Win10, Windows Explorer is "File Explorer" and it does not appear to have any slide show option.

Thanks

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Had my coffee - Opened up mu W-10 computer, and...
Open File Explorer, then use it to open the folder containing your images. A list of the images by file name appears (at least in my set up)_. Click on an image and you will be presented with a menu. The first selection is "View", select that. View then gives you a list of how the files are to be displayed. I always use "Large Icons" as that fills my screen with as many images as I can comfortably use. Double click on an image and it will fill the screen. The menu bar across the bottom presents a number of options, one of which is Slide Show - just to the right if the red "X" delete icon. Click that and you slide show will begin.

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

BboH wrote:

Had my coffee - Opened up mu W-10 computer, and...... (show quote)

Was able to get this to work as you described. Have not found a way to make this happen automatically when Win 10 boots.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

stadtmkw wrote:

Have not found a way to make this happen automatically when Win 10 boots.

I don't know if there is a way.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

BboH wrote:

I don't know if there is a way.

Use Windows Task Scheduler, or write a batch file (old school way). Both will let you launch an application at boot time. Not sure if it will work when Windows comes off hibernation or sleep mode.

http://www.howtogeek.com/138159/how-to-enable-programs-and-custom-scripts-to-run-at-boot/

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

Gene51 wrote:

Use Windows Task Scheduler, or write a batch file (old school way). Both will let you launch an application at boot time. Not sure if it will work when Windows comes off hibernation or sleep mode.

http://www.howtogeek.com/138159/how-to-enable-programs-and-custom-scripts-to-run-at-boot/

Thanks, that occurred to me but I don't know how to start file manager in slide show mode either automatically or manually. I'm in process of looking at other slideshow packages and may have found one with AutoRun SlideShow from Duckware.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Look this through
There are several

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=XF1sWJraKOOJ0gLP3rnQBA&q=autorun+slideshow+for+windows+10&oq=AutoRun+SlideShow+for+windows+1&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.33i22i29i30k1l4.2098.15881.0.19844.14.14.0.0.0.0.480.4006.0j1j9j3j1.14.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.14.4000...0i22i30k1j33i160k1.SUt0VUM79EU

stadtmkw Loc: Burlington, MA

dirtpusher wrote:

Look this through
There are several

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=XF1sWJraKOOJ0gLP3rnQBA&q=autorun+slideshow+for+windows+10&oq=AutoRun+SlideShow+for+windows+1&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.33i22i29i30k1l4.2098.15881.0.19844.14.14.0.0.0.0.480.4006.0j1j9j3j1.14.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.14.4000...0i22i30k1j33i160k1.SUt0VUM79EU

This is the one that I'm looking at and it looks like it will do the trick. The executable can be placed in the folder where the slide show images are located and it will show all of the images in the folder. A shortcut to the executable can be placed in the startup folder and will run when windows boots.

Thanks to all for the help.

Ken