Windows question - How to run a "slide show" of photos in a folder?

I know that I've done this in the past and I went to the Windows help and it says just to click on the folder containing the photos and then "click on slideshow". But I see NO slideshow option anywhere - not on the menu, not when right-clicking, nada ...

Can anyone help? I need this next weekend for a family reunion.

I'm running Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude laptop - very normal configuration (and not new since a year ago when I did this exact thing at a family gathering ... only changes would be whatever updates have been issued for Windows in the last year.)

Anyone??

some guesses:

Are the photos in the "My pictures" folder?

Try right-clicking on the folder, and choose "properties", then "customize", then "optimize folder for pictures."

and/or this:

Open Windows Explorer then TOOLS-->FOLDER OPTIONS. Under view, click on "always show menus"

ril said:
some guesses:
Are the photos in the "My pictures" folder?
Try right-clicking on the folder, and choose "properties", then "customize", then "optimize folder for pictures."
and/or this:
Open Windows Explorer then TOOLS-->FOLDER OPTIONS. Under view, click on "always show menus"

Not in "My pictures", but I could put them there (as a subfolder) if I have to. They are all in a folder on the hard drive, but if I right click and select properties, I don't see an option for customize.

Windows help says that I should just click on the folder (any folder with photos) and then select slideshow. But I have no such option.

So that part about "show all menus" sounds like it might be what I need. But I don't see tools anywhere ... where would I find that?? (Maybe on one of the menus that needs to be shown ????)

When you open Windows Explorer, do you see, at the top, FILE EDIT VIEW TOOLS HELP?

It turns out that it DOES have to be in My Pictures. Then the slideshow option appears (now that I unearthed the menus.)

Thank You!!!!

Oh good, nevermind my next questions, I posted them before I saw your post.

Can you take a screen shot of what the folder looks like when you open it?

Do you have the slideshow option on your MY PICTURES folder, or is it missing there, too?

This is what it looks like when you select a folder under your "Pictures" library in Windows 8.1. The "Picture Tools" menu option comes up and looks like this:

ParticleMan said:
This is what it looks like when you select a folder under your "Pictures" library in Windows 8.1. The "Picture Tools" menu option comes up and looks like this:

It doesn't look like that on mine at all. All I have is a menu with the words. But I didn't even have that when I started on this. And then I had to get into "My Pictures" before I saw the slideshow option listed. I suspect that there is a preference somewhere that affects how the menus appear.

At any rate, all's well that ends well.

Thanks again!

sac, I had the menu with words until I selected a folder within the Pictures folder.

Hmmm - Mine still has words, even in Pictures.

Hmm.. Possibly Win7 vs Win8

I have Win 7.

sac,

In Windows Explorer, open the folder containing the pics; click on the first pic you want in the slideshow; hit Enter and Windows Photo Viewer will open. At the bottom center of Photo Viewer there's a rectangle in the center of a circle, click on the rectangle and you're in slideshow mode. In slideshow, right click and hit "pause" and you can control the display time for each pic with the right/left cursor commands; or you can select the "slow", "medium" or "fast" automatic display mode.

In the event that you only want to display some pics in the folder, Ctrl+click for each pic you want to display (or Shift+Ctrl+click to select a series of pics) and then hit Enter and follow remaining instructions above.

Happy viewing.

TomR

Actually, I didn't have to work that hard. Read the earlier posts - once I had the photos in 'My Pictures', the menu included the slideshow option