Re: Wallpaper and My Pictures connected

Sharon

You say fill up My Pictures. I say clear it out ! How can we lose <g>.

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Gerry
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"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:22:48 -0500, Viktoria Fragstein wrote:
>
>> Hallo NG,
>>
>> all of a sudden all pictures located in My Pictures show in the list of
>> wallpaper (rightclick Desktop - Properties - Desktop). I have only found
>> 1
>> question about this in this NG:
>>
>> News:085c01c3958c$ea466d70$a401280a@xxxxxxx
>>
>> but the answer is not satisfying for me. This was not so before, it
>> happened
>> all of a sudden. I have downloaded a few wallpapers and copied between
>> C -
>> Windows - Web - Wallpaper and My Pictures. I already tried to delete the
>> desktop.inis assuming that the information is stored in them but finally
>> replaced them because there was no change. The only solution seems to
>> keep
>> My Pictures empty. I got all kind of pictures in My Pictures, a lot not
>> even
>> named yet. And since they all display in Desktop Properties this takes
>> eternities to open. Somehow I have been missing the cause of this and
>> want
>> to stop it. Is it because I was using a pic from My Pictures as wallpaper
>> over the button browse?How can I stop the list from showing pictures
>> located
>> in My Pictures?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>
> I use the My Pictures folder too and saw the same thing occur until... I
> had over 100 pictures in the folder. Once that "magic" number is reached,
> the My Picture images are no longer listed in the wallpaper section of
> Display properties. Those Images can still be selected as wallpaper but
> only by using the Browse button.
>
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> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User


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