15 minute lockscreen slideshow - possible?

BrianInEngland · Oct 8, 2023

The lock screen slideshow has three options before the display is turned off - 30 minutes, 1 hour or 3 hours.
Is the selected time stored in the registry, and can it be changed to, say, 15 minutes instead?

Ghot · Oct 8, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
The lock screen slideshow has three options before the display is turned off - 30 minutes, 1 hour or 3 hours.
Is the selected time stored in the registry, and can it be changed to, say, 15 minutes instead?

There's a program called Regshot. There are others like it. What they do is take a "pic" of your registry (first shot).
Then... you make some change to Windows/settings, and then take a 2nd "shot".
Now you have before and after shots of the change(s) you made to Windows.

Now Regshot will compare the two "shots" and show you just the differences.
This is one way to find how changes we make in Windows... are made in the registry.

The only problem with this method, is that any mouse movement, clicking on anything, opening windows, etc., also make changes in the registry. So to keep things from getting confusing, try to do as little as possible, between the two "shots" of the registry.

Then when Regshot shows you the "comparison", it will be easier to understand.

GitHub - Seabreg/Regshot: Regshot is a small, free and open-source registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new softwa

Regshot is a small, free and open-source registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes...

github.com

Long story short... it helps you find where registry settings are.

BrianInEngland · Oct 8, 2023

Ghot said:
There's a program called Regshot. There are others like it. What they do is take a "pic" of your registry (first shot).
Then... you make some change to Windows/settings, and then take a 2nd "shot".
Now you have before and after shots of the change(s) you made to Windows.

Now Regshot will compare the two "shots" and show you just the differences.
This is one way to find how changes we make, are made in the registry.

The only problem with this method, is that any mouse movement, clicking on anything, opening windows, etc., also make changes in the registry. So to keep things from getting confusing, try to do as little as possible, between the two "shots" of the registry.

Then when Regshot shows you the "comparison", it will be easier to understand.

GitHub - Seabreg/Regshot: Regshot is a small, free and open-source registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new softwa

Regshot is a small, free and open-source registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes...

github.com

Long story short... it helps you find where registry settings are.

Not worried about all that, just wondering if someone knew which key stores the lock screen timeout so it can be changed. Not the end of the world if it can't be done

Ghot · Oct 8, 2023

BrianInEngland said:
Not worried about all that, just wondering if someone knew which key stores the lock screen timeout so it can be changed. Not the end of the world if it can't be done

This is what we would have to do to find out.
But I don't really want to go to all the trouble to set up a slideshow and change the times... to see the registry changes.

I thought you might want to use this hammer to drive your own nails.

Is there an easy answer? No.
Is there a @Brink tutorial for this? No.

Time to break out the hammer.

Now maybe someone with a lot more energy than me, might feel like doing all this to find your answer. I don't know.