gee

Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
included not only images from "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper", but also ALL the
jpegs in "My Pictures" folder... (I don't want this).

Is there a way to correct this so that "Desktop Display Properties" looks
only into the "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper" folder for images?

TIA for any suggestions!

Gee

Nepatsfan

"gee" <gee@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1089E973-FCBE-4B80-B730-1D7498BB5891@microsoft.com...
> Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
> that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
> included not only images from "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper", but also ALL the
> jpegs in "My Pictures" folder... (I don't want this).
>
> Is there a way to correct this so that "Desktop Display Properties" looks
> only into the "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper" folder for images?
>
> TIA for any suggestions!
>
> Gee
>

It's unfortunate but the only way I know of to prevent this behavior is to move
files from the My Pictures folder and its subfolders to a different location on
your hard drive.

Take a look at this article for more info.

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Pictures list - Display Properties Background tab
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/background.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

gee

You're right; moving my jpegs from the "My Pictures" folder just to stop
those same images from being displayed in the "Desktop Display Properties"
list is "unfortunate". I don't mind using the "Browse" button to navigate to
different folders in search of jpges for the desktop, just don't want all the
images in "My Pictures" clogging up the Display Properties list.

Oddly enough, this unwanted behavior is only recent (until yesterday, never
used to do this)...

Gee



"Nepatsfan" wrote:

> "gee" <gee@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1089E973-FCBE-4B80-B730-1D7498BB5891@microsoft.com...
> > Just yesterday I decided to change the wallpaper on my desktop and noticed
> > that the list of available jpegs shown in "Desktop Display Properties"
> > included not only images from "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper", but also ALL the
> > jpegs in "My Pictures" folder... (I don't want this).
> >
> > Is there a way to correct this so that "Desktop Display Properties" looks
> > only into the "C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper" folder for images?
> >
> > TIA for any suggestions!
> >
> > Gee
> >
>
> It's unfortunate but the only way I know of to prevent this behavior is to move
> files from the My Pictures folder and its subfolders to a different location on
> your hard drive.
>
> Take a look at this article for more info.
>
> Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
> Pictures list - Display Properties Background tab
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/background.htm
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>
>
>

pacific-guy

Hi both,

It wasn't until today I detected I had the same problem in which
Desktop Display Properties listed all pictures from the original My
Pictures folder and subfolders. I will show you how I solved this
problem.

To get rid of this problem:

1. Go to Start > Search, do a file search for "My Pictures" (quotation
marks omitted)
2. Under search results, look for folders called My Pictures in
locations other than original My Documents folders
3. Delete My Pictures folders not listed in any original My Documents
folders

Here's how it happened to me. Last week, I downloaded a picture while
in sandboxed mode, which caused Sandbox to create another My Pictures
folder located at C:\Documents and Settings\*user profile*\Application
Data\Sandbox\DefaultBox\user\current\My Documents\My Pictures. This
began the whole problem, it seems.

I know there is a concrete correlation because I deliberately did
immediate before-and-after comparsions. As soon as I removed that
sandboxed My Pictures folder, which had confused the system, the
Desktop Display Properties list returned to normal.


--
pacific-guy