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

2016-04-02T06:22:27+00:00

Thanks great solution !

I`m also using the gallery on Windows 10 becaus the Fotos App is such a bad joke. In my case on Windows 10 after the Threshold 2 update, the gallery did not work correctly any more (and yes I'm a hobby photographer and I use it on a regular base, so I know it was after the update). Also I believe the images in total look better. So thanks again...
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Anonymous

2016-01-15T22:03:26+00:00

But note that this solution is not ideal - for those with HD screens it leaves low-res images on the Edit screen too small. And for me it greatly aggravates a likely bug in my graphics driver that often leaves part of the prior image on the screen when I use <next>.

Does anyone have a clue as to why this works? Disabling scaling should make things smaller, not bigger.
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2015-11-28T18:16:08+00:00

If you have upgraded to Win10 from Win7 (and presumably Win8) there is an option to reinstall/accept license to use the old Photo Gallery. I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 and found the file in that exact location:

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

Cheers,

Dbee
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