Stephen Reed <stevie_reed@nospamhotmail.com> wrote on Sat, 26 Nov 2005:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a brand new Dell about 3 months old with XP Pro installed.
>Everything has been fine up till today when I wanted to change the desktop
>picture. I usually change the picture every month, but this time all my
>photos from the 'My picture Folder' about 1000 or so are in the column as
>well and hard to find the original 'background or desktop pictures'!
>
>As far as I know I have not been messing with anything, or installed any
>programmes apart from Microsoft updates.. I can give you another clue, that
>when if I click Browse and Background files is highlighted they still show
>jpegs.! What's happened?
Hi Steve
Nothing's happened :-) XP is behaving the way it's supposed to. It
looks in the My Pictures folder (and any sub-folders) for images to
display as wallpaper. If you don't want your pictures in the wallpaper
listing, you'll have to move them elsewhere.
MVP Ramesh posted that Windows XP looks for image files in these
places:
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\<Username>\My Documents\My Pictures (and all
sub-folders);
C:\Docs and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer;
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes (and all sub-folders)
Hope this helps.
--
Nightowl
