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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2013-11-11T14:34:36+00:00

Hi Glenda

Thanks to you and the people at Microsoft Community for staying on top of this, and for all of your efforts. I have been trying to view files from Photo Gallery. I have opened slideshow from the ribbon at top, the projector screen icon on the bottom bar and by using F12, any theme, same results.

Will be happy to provide any info you request.

Thanks again.
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2013-11-11T07:03:51+00:00

Hi Tom and James,

Thank you for waiting and we apologize for the delayed response. Our support specialist would like to ask for the exact steps on how you're trying to view the files as slideshow. Is it inside the Photo Gallery, or by viewing them on File Explorer?

We'll wait for your response.

Regards.
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2013-11-07T04:22:24+00:00

Hi Cesar

I appreciate you taking time to reply to my problem and to escalate the issue to your support specialist. I really do, and thank you. Any help is better than no help. However telling me the issue will be investigated, sometime or another, and a fix in the form of an update will be made sometime or another after that is not the answer I am looking for. I don't blame you. You helped all you could.

It's hard to have patience when something you love and use every day becomes unusable because you replaced it with something that you were told was better. I hope help comes soon. Thanks again for all your efforts.
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