Re: Wallpaper question

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"Canoro" wrote
I want to use the my pictures folder to have pictures in it. is there a way
to stop windows from looking into the my pictures folder?

"Rock" wrote:

"Walter R." <wer25@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>I looked at the wallpapers available on my desktop. (Control Panel >
>Displays) I noticed that, in addition to the wallpapers that came with
>windows XP, all image files in the My Pictures folder now show up in the
>scroll-down list of available wallpapers.
>
> How did they get into the scroll-down list and how do I delete them > from
> this list?
>
> I looked in >Windows>Web>Wallpaper, but this file does not contain all > the
> images available in the scroll-down wallpaper list.

Walter for your reference.

Windows XP gets the image files from the following paths:

BMP Files from C:\WINDOWS

BMP, JPG, GIF, JPE, DIB, PNG, HTM files from the following locations:

C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\My Documents\My Pictures [and all the
sub folders]
C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes [ and all sub folders]

There may be a way but not that I'm aware of.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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