"Desktop Display Properties" shows jpegs in "My Pictures" folder..

[Guest gee]

"Desktop Display Properties" shows jpegs in "My Pictures" folder..

 

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

[Guest Nepatsfan]

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Re: "Desktop Display Properties" shows jpegs in "My Pictures" folder..

 

"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

[Guest gee]

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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

>

>

>

[Guest pacific-guy]

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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