Re: my pictures in desktop

ahoypatty wrote:
This helps if it is in the screen saver, but my pictures are all listed in the Desktop tab.
How do I get them from being listed for the desktop selections.
It is funny, every picture that is in My Pictures, is listed in the desktop choices

"Fido" wrote:

Right Click Desktop, Left click Properties, Left Click Screen Saver tab, select My Pictures Slideshow (if it isnt already selected) the click Settings button. Theres a box labeled 'Use pictures in this folder' which sets the directory of where the slideshow looks.

From MVP Ramesh - Windows XP fetches 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\<USER NAME>\My Documents\My Pictures [& ALL THE SUB-FOLDERS]
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes [*** & ALL THE SUB-FOLDERS ***]

The short answer is for you to create a folder somewhere in My Documents - but not in My Pictures - for your personal pictures. Then when you want one of those pictures to be your Desktop background just browse to that folder from the Display>Desktop applet.


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