I had an issue with the slideshow gadget not working. The images would not display when I added the gadget to the Desktop, and no matter what I did I could not set a folder.
Eventually I remembered that I had deleted the Images library that comes with Windows 7, and so I had Windows 7 recreate the default Images library. After that I removed the gadget and re-added it, and it worked.
It's always amazing how much trouble we can get into we trying to custom configure our environments. I also deleted my default lib references. No pic in the Slideshow Win 7 Ult.
Upon reading the previous post, I was able to restore the SlideShow gadget to working order. Thanks for the post.
My problem started w/ updating the graphics adapter to an unsupported driver since the ati radeon mobility x1400 driver is depricated for win 7 or aleast non-supported by ATI.
After installing the RAR for 32 bit and my graphics working correctly, I associated the driver issue as causing the SlideShow issue. Not to be.