Re: desktop wallpaper question

From: §kullywag©- (skullywag_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/07/04


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:36:13 GMT

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:03:20 -0700, "thomasthomas"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>>.
>>
Windows XP looks in BOTH \web\wallpaper and "my pictures" for
wallpaper images.
You can try some customization sites like
http://www.kellys-korner.com/ to see if a tweak is available to adjust
this........... or simply try saving your porn to a different folder.

Personally? "My Pictures" folder is one that has had only cobwebs in
it since the day XP came out.

§kullywag©-



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