Policy

Turn on desktop background slideshow (plugged in)

Microsoft Windows

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Turn on desktop background slideshow (plugged in)
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Power Management > Video and Display Settings
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to specify if Windows should enable the desktop background slideshow. If you enable this policy setting, desktop background slideshow is enabled. If you disable this policy setting, the desktop background slideshow is disabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting.

Internal name
EnableDesktopSlideShowAC
Policy ID
ba2511bce53e
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\309dce9b-bef4-4119-9921-a851fb12f0f4
Value name
ACSettingIndex
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\309dce9b-bef4-4119-9921-a851fb12f0f4
Value name
ACSettingIndex
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.