Windows 10 full-screen image

[480sparky]

Working with a laptop running Win10 (not my choice). It's using a projector as a second monitor.

Here's what I want to be able to do: Open a .JPG file and have it display through the projector full screen. Nothing but the image. No task bars, no tool bars, nothing but the image.

I don't want to open the file, press F43, Ctrl+R, Esc, enter password, pause the slideshow, dance an Irish jig then eat a bug to get it to display full-screen either.

Simply double-click on the file, and it will be displayed on the projector at full screen.

Every 'full-screen display' option I can find always displays other stuff besides the image, or is a slideshow that must be paused every time an image is opened.

 

[smoke665]

I cast to my 4k smart tv a but it basically mirrors whatever is on my screen. If I have toolbars it shows those if I have a full screen image it shows.

I wonder if this might work for you. Windows 10 Tips – Streaming and Cast to Device - Intertech Blog

 

[480sparky]

That looks likes it about how to hook up a bluetooth device using 197 steps. I already have everything connected.

 

[smoke665]

Didn't you install the device, in device manager?

 

[480sparky]

I'm not wanting to install a device. I already have that done. The laptop and projector are working fine.

It's displaying an image on the projector full-screen. That's the goal.

 

[smoke665]

To my knowledge there's only three options for projection mode - Duplicate (mirrors your screen), Extend (connects the device as a second desktop) and Second screen only. You can " Change Projection Mode) in the connection window of the device. I guess it would be possible to drag an image to the second device and display full screen?

 

[480sparky]

I'm not asking how to set up the second monitor. It's all set up. It functions fine. The issue is with the apps that I've found do not allow for full-screen image display. They always show tool bars, app bars, task bars, exif data, image info, etc and I don't want any of that to be displayed.

I want to
1. Click on a .JPG file in file manager.
2. Have said image display full-screen on the second monitor.

I want to see this on the second monitor (in this case, the projector):

Not this:

 

[smoke665]

Do you have "Windows Photos"? if so open the image in photo's move it to your second screen and or open it from there, click the expand arrow bottom right on the screen-

it will make the image full screen without toolbars. The little arrows I circled will change to pointing in and be the only thing showing other then your full screen image. It should have come with Windows. Photo replaced the Gallery which was discontinued in 2017.

 

[Scott Whaley]

You need to set your projector up as a continuous monitor. That way it is separate from your laptop screen. You can then decide what program you want to use to open the photos. Drag that open program to your projector screen and then maximize it. Now, whenever you open a photo file it will be maximized on that screen.

 

[480sparky]

Let me reiterate:

I want to open a file, and have it display full-screen on the projector.

I cannot click on anything to make the image full screen once I open it. I won't be able to click on an arrow, or anything else, as I will not be able to see the projected image. I will be out-of-sight from the screen. So I cannot click on anything that's in the second monitor.



I want to open a file, and have it display full-screen on the projector.


Let's try another tact. Forget the projector. Forget a second monitor/screen. I want to open a file, and have it display full-screen.. without clicking on anything else.

 

[Scott Whaley]

I'm not aware of any software that will do that.

 

[smoke665]

I'm not either.

 

[snowbear]

Possibly Power Point; I think you can save a file in presentation mode that auto starts. As to whether it starts in full screen mode, I don't recall.

Edit: I just tested it . . . if you create a slide (one slide if only one photo) and save the presentation as a Power Point Show (.ppsx), it will go to full screen. I am using Office 365 and Windows 10. I don't know if the feature is in OpenOffice, but I suspect it is.

 

[zulu42]

Crazy idea but can you adjust the viewing area of the projector beyond the viewing area of the screen itself. That way, your file manager will display the image, as it does now, with all the toolbars and junk - but all the junk will be off screen?

 

[480sparky]

Doing so would affect everything else displayed on the screen, not just images.