Ramesh,
Thank you for your reply. My problem is, that XP doesn't fetch any pictures
from C:\windows\web\wallpaper. Is there a way to edit the regedit file to
get windows to direct toward the wallpaper directory?
Thank you,
Maxine
Maxine,
From:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/background.htm
For the background tab, Windows XP fetches the 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 *]
Coming to the problem: How many pictures do you have in
C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper folder? If the number is huge [such as 50 or > ],
move some to My Pictures or any of the above folders. When the number of
files is reduced from C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper, XP *might* fetch the images
from this folder.
--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
I don't know how it happened, but when i go to change the desktop background
to a different picture, it points to all the pictures in documents/my
pictures instead of c:\windows\web\wallpaper. How to i point it back to the
wallpaper directory?
Thanks,
Maxine
