Issue with Lock Screen Slideshow and Screensaver Integration in Windows 11

Hello everyone,


I'm facing a bit of a challenge and hoping someone might be able to help. Here’s what I want to achieve:

• I want to have a lock screen slideshow playing.
• After the slideshow has been running for X minutes, I want my screensaver to kick in automatically.

I’ve been able to set up the lock screen slideshow without issue, but here's where the problem arises:

• As soon as I select my screensaver in the Screen Saver settings, the lock screen slideshow reverts back to the default lock screen picture instead of continuing as a slideshow.
• If I go back into the lock screen settings, it shows the lock screen picture again, and the slideshow option is lost.

I’ve tried various settings, but I can’t seem to find a way to get them both to work together. When the slideshow is active, the screensaver option seems to reset to None. On the other hand, when I change the screensaver settings, the lock screen slideshow reverts to the picture.


I did find a related post on superuser.com, where someone mentioned a registry issue when setting screensaver-related values. However, I haven't found a clear solution to this specific combination of settings.


Has anyone encountered this issue, or does anyone have a working method to set both the lock screen slideshow and screensaver to function together? It seems like the two settings are conflicting somehow, and I haven’t been able to find a workaround.


Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

Sorry no one has answered you. I do not use slide show but will try to help you. If I can't, others will see the activity and step in.

I see you are running Windows Education version. First of all, in that second screenshot, it shows some settings managed by your organization. That means one of 2 things. Either a group policy has been set by an administrator OR if the user is an administrator, some tweak you have made is prohibiting you from making some of the changes in Personalization-lock screen.

Regarding having a lock screen slideshow and a screensaver it is as I suspected and you can't have both at the same time. I verified my suspicion with AI and this is the answer I received.
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No, you cannot use a lock screen slideshow and a screensaver at the same time in Windows 11 (including the Education version). Here's why and how they interact:

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Lock Screen Slideshow vs. Screensaver — Key Differences:​

A possible solution is to bypass the Settings app and Screen Saver control panel (after you've configured their respective image settings).

Where DelayLockInterval is counted in seconds.