Re: remove files from showing in desktop - background

[Guest pacific-guy]

Re: remove files from showing in desktop - background

 

Hi everyone,

 

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.