"Desktop Display Properties" shows jpegs in "My Pictures" folder..

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gee - 06 Apr 2008 16:18 GMT

Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
included not only images from "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper", but also ALL the
jpegs in "My Pictures" folder... (I don't want this).

Is there a way to correct this so that "Desktop Display Properties" looks
only into the "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper" folder for images?

TIA for any suggestions!

Gee

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Nepatsfan - 06 Apr 2008 16:43 GMT

> Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
> that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
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> Gee

It's unfortunate but the only way I know of to prevent this behavior is to move
files from the My Pictures folder and its subfolders to a different location on
your hard drive.

Take a look at this article for more info.

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Pictures list - Display Properties Background tab
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/background.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

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gee - 06 Apr 2008 17:29 GMT

You're right; moving my jpegs from the "My Pictures" folder just to stop
those same images from being displayed in the "Desktop Display Properties"
list is "unfortunate". I don't mind using the "Browse" button to navigate to
different folders in search of jpges for the desktop, just don't want all the
images in "My Pictures" clogging up the Display Properties list.

Oddly enough, this unwanted behavior is only recent (until yesterday, never
used to do this)...

Gee

> > Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
> > that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
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> Nepatsfan

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pacific-guy - 13 May 2008 05:07 GMT

Hi both

It wasn't until today I detected I had the same problem in whic
Desktop Display Properties listed all pictures from the original M
Pictures folder and subfolders. I will show you how I solved thi
problem

To get rid of this problem

1. Go to Start > Search, do a file search for "My Pictures" (quotatio
marks omitted
2. Under search results, look for folders called My Pictures i
locations other than original My Documents folder
3. Delete My Pictures folders not listed in any original My Document
folder

Here's how it happened to me. Last week, I downloaded a picture whil
in sandboxed mode, which caused Sandbox to create another My Picture
folder located at C:\Documents and Settings\*user profile*\Applicatio
Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox\user\current\My Documents\My Pictures. Thi
began the whole problem, it seems

I know there is a concrete correlation because I deliberately di
immediate before-and-after comparsions. As soon as I removed tha
sandboxed My Pictures folder, which had confused the system, th
Desktop Display Properties list returned to normal

--
pacific-guy

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