Photo Gallery slideshow full screen in Windows 8.1

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I don't recall whether the upgrade caused this, i.e., whether fullscreen was functional in Photo Gallery for Windows 8.0 slideshow. Either way, my question is whether or not fullscreen will be implemented in future versions of Photo Gallery slideshow for Windows 8.1 or whether I can do something at my end to activate it now. Apparently fullscreen was available in the Vista version judging from Web chatter but several sources say it is not implemented in Windows 8 and that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) must be above 4 something to allow the fullscreen option. Since the WEI was eliminated in Windows 8.1, I am wondering if that is the problem. My equipment is very new (Dell XPS 2720) with a large high resolution (2560 x 1440) screen. Photos viewed in Photo Gallery slideshow have a large black area to the right and black areas above and below and the photo is not centered. Perhaps it is not possible to implement a fullscreen version, but if that is the case, it should be at least mentioned. Since Photo Gallery has many other useful features, I hope there is something I am doing wrong.

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For anyone who is still trying, I found a simple solution!

I am a long time user of photo gallery and have a kind of love/hate relationship with it. I recently discovered this issue after upgrading from windows 7 to 10.

It took me about 30 minutes to find this solution, so unless this is not working for others and just for me, shame on you Microsoft (sorry, couldn't help myself)

So.... here goes:

Locate the Photo Gallery .exe file, in my case and most likely for anyone else:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\WLXPhotoGallery.exe

right click and select properties.
open compatibility tab
put a tick-mark in "disable display scaling on high DPI settings"
click apply
close properties

Now startup Photo Gallery and try a slideshow.

Please let me know if it worked for you, as it did for me.

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Anonymous

Thank You! Finally a solution that works. Why have Microsoft not publicised this?

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Anonymous

2013-11-19T05:11:42+00:00

Just to add to the discussion. I'm using a surface rt and in photo gallery with slide show pictures were displayed in full screen. After upgrading to windows 8.1 for the RT photo gallery now will not display photos full screen. It attempts to show them in full screen but immediately shrinks them down a second after the picture is displayed on screen.
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2013-11-19T17:27:45+00:00

You know I have the same problem. when I bought my pc that came with windows 8 it worked fine then I was upgraded to windows 8.1 and now it shows my pictures in the corner with huge black area on side and bottom. why can I not adjust it?
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2013-11-19T22:34:20+00:00

Hello JamesWiMe,

We'd like to request for some log files (MsInfo, Dxdiag and Event Viewer) so that we could have our product group investigate this matter further. Just to be on the same page as well, when you said that there weren't any noticeable changes to the images displayed in slideshow after the resolution was lowered, do you still see the "black bars/borders" around the picture when viewed full screen? A screenshot of this image (in a state where the resolution screen was lowered) would really be helpful so that we could also submit this to our product group so that they could determine the cause of the said problem.

Sincerely,

Windows Live Global Escalations Team
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