Re: Desktop Background Listbox problem.....

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I have come across it and have this snippet on file:

The places wallpaper can be.

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>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Pictures
(+subfolders)

C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes (+subfolders)

I have the first 3 showing but files in My Pictures do not show and I
believe they will stop showing in yours after you get 100 image files
in My Pictures.

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:04:19 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "JimTheAverage" <jim@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

When I right click on my XP Pro SP2 desktop and select Properties>Desktop
the Background listbox doesn't just list the files in
%SystemRoot%/Web/Wallpaper. It lists those plus every bmp file in the My
Pictures folder and sub folders.

I searched the registry for "wallpaper" and found that
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion's WallpaperDir setting was in
fact set to %SystemRoot%/Web/Wallpaper. So I dno't get where the other
files are coming from.

The problem here is that this is a new build and I haven't even started to
put in my THOUSANDS of images into My Pictures yet. When I do, if this
behavior persists, it will most likely freeze my Display properties dialog
and make picking out wallpaper form the thousands of images that I have
quite messy if not downright impossible.

Has anyone seen this behaviour in XP or know of a fix for it?

Thanks!

jim

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