Re: Don't put your pictures into "My Pictures"


"Rich Pasco" <richp1234@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OE3EmNysJHA.4592@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| db wrote:
|
| > you might want to
| > turn off the thumbnail
| > view for my pictures.
|
| I did, just now, for all folders.
|
| > then utilize a different
| > program like windows
| > photo gallery to index
| > and present those files.
|
| I am happy with Thumbs Plus from Cerious Software
| http://www.cerious.com/
|
| I don't use Explorer to look at photos.
|
| > with 30,000 images
| > you might simply need
| > more memory or graphics
| > power.
|
| I have plenty of memory (4 GB).
|
| But the problem is that Windows wants to list all
| 30,000 images in the selection menu for wallpaper.
|
| > also each image, all
| > 30,000 of them, are
| > also highly fragmented
| > throughout your disk and
| > inhibiting your system
| > performance.
|
| That's irrelevant to my post. I don't want Windows to access
| any of them when creating the Wallpaper selection list.
|
| > so you should move them
| > off the system partition and
| > into a separate partition or
| > drive or cd or dvd or
| > microsoft's skydrive.
|
| Well, that would certainly "solve" the problem--if they weren't
| in My Pictures, then Windows wouldn't find them! But I was hoping
| for a way to tell Windows to not list the files from My Pictures
| in the wallpaper menu.
|
| - Rich

Sorry, but once Windows looks for wallpaper in "My Pictures" it always looks there.
There is no registry hack or any other known way to prevent it.
Make a new Pictures folder and move the pictures.


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