Re: desktop wallpaper question

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From: thomasthomas (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04


Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:03:20 -0700

nope, that isn't correct. i tried it and it didn't
work. :(

>-----Original Message-----
>If I am not mistaken I think Windows will look for the
wallpaper in the last
>folder that an image was chosen from, of course I have
been known to be
>totally incorrect on a lot of issues :)
>
>"thomasthomas" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:571d01c491ab$fef80a00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> hi.
>>
>> for some strange reason, all of a sudden all my image
>> files in the 'my pictures' folder is available in the
>> selection box as a desktop wallpaper. before this
>> happened, it only looked at the
c:\wINDOWS\web\wallpaper
>> folder for images (i prefer it this way). i have more
>> than 100 images in the 'my pictures' folder so windows
>> shouldn't be looking there for images. how can i
revert
>> back to windows only looking at the
>> c:\windows\web\wallpaper folder for desktop wallpapers?
>>
>> kind regards,
>> thomas
>>
>> ps/ please don't advise on using sys restore since i
>> cleared it already. yikes! :P
>
>
>.
>



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