Screensaver SlideShow Windows Vista - solution

I have read many posts on these boards and elsewhere and I have been
struggling with this problem on 2 computers -

on the 1st (older) it worked fine then stopped. I had copied my files from
old to new computer -

and so on new computer it never worked, which led me to believe it was
something in the Pictures folder. I set it to a subfolder in Pictures and
it worked fine. By process of eliminiation I discovered
that I had several shortcut files in the pictures folder. If the shortcut
points to a valid location then there is no problem - but two of the
shortcuts pointed to invalid locations - and they were triggering the message
"an error is preventing the slideshow from playing".

I now have a mix of video, jpg, tiff, gif, photoshop and other graphic files
in
My Pictures and valid shortcut files are okay. The videos play in the
slideshow but don't have sound.

Hope this helps some of those still struggling with the problem.

Kathie

Thanks for posting the solution.

-Paul Randall

"BRRNESE" <> wrote in message
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>I have read many posts on these boards and elsewhere and I have been
> struggling with this problem on 2 computers -
>
> on the 1st (older) it worked fine then stopped. I had copied my files
> from
> old to new computer -
>
> and so on new computer it never worked, which led me to believe it was
> something in the Pictures folder. I set it to a subfolder in Pictures
> and
> it worked fine. By process of eliminiation I discovered
> that I had several shortcut files in the pictures folder. If the shortcut
> points to a valid location then there is no problem - but two of the
> shortcuts pointed to invalid locations - and they were triggering the
> message
> "an error is preventing the slideshow from playing".
>
> I now have a mix of video, jpg, tiff, gif, photoshop and other graphic
> files
> in
> My Pictures and valid shortcut files are okay. The videos play in the
> slideshow but don't have sound.
>
> Hope this helps some of those still struggling with the problem.
>
> Kathie
>

"BRRNESE" <> wrote in message
news:05BE6215-CCFC-4CFD-A081-...
>I have read many posts on these boards and elsewhere and I have been
> struggling with this problem on 2 computers -
>
> on the 1st (older) it worked fine then stopped. I had copied my files
> from
> old to new computer -
>
> and so on new computer it never worked, which led me to believe it was
> something in the Pictures folder. I set it to a subfolder in Pictures
> and
> it worked fine. By process of eliminiation I discovered
> that I had several shortcut files in the pictures folder. If the shortcut
> points to a valid location then there is no problem - but two of the
> shortcuts pointed to invalid locations - and they were triggering the
> message
> "an error is preventing the slideshow from playing".
>
> I now have a mix of video, jpg, tiff, gif, photoshop and other graphic
> files
> in
> My Pictures and valid shortcut files are okay. The videos play in the
> slideshow but don't have sound.


It's interesting and disappointing that it cannot understand what shortcuts
are, but I don't see why anybody would have shortcuts in that folder anyway.
The only places that anybody should have shortcuts is on the desktop, and of
course, in the Start Menu folders. I suppose I have used them to remind me
of related files in other locations, but as folders get moved around they
become redundant.

ss.