re: Wallpapers
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alex
(2812 messages posted)
this is the default directory for wallpaper
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]
"WallPaperDir"= %SystemRoot%\Web\Wallpaper
On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 9:06 am, Drea wrote:
>To Doc n Alex, I understand that the preloaded XP wallpapers are stored in C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper.
>That wasn't the issue; the issue/question was how to alter WHERE explorer looks
for
>add'l wallpaper images bc explorer checks C:\Documents and Settings\%user name%\My
>Documents\My Pictures and C:\Windows\Resources\Themes in addition to the default
>Wallpaper folder for any/all compatible image formats. I wanted a registry fix to
>exclude the latter two folders so as to minimize the list in the Desktop Background
>List in the Display Properties menu.
>
>Phil, thanx for the heads up on the download, but that’s not really getting at the
>root of the issue either. Neat app though, with the automated rotating of the wallpapers
>n all.
>
>Um, Kevin……Although at the outset it seemed dumb to have to create 2 image folders
>just to separate the files I intend to use for wallpapers from other image files,
>I guess that's what I'll do; it still seems to me that there should be a backdoor
>way to direct where explorer checks for wallpaper images, specifically-down to the
>subfolder.
>However, now that I've configured it to my liking, it's not so bad. I renamed the
>default My Pictures file to Wallpapers and just created another file in the same
>directory called "Pictures" to house all of my- you guessed it- pictures. And now
>I can just copy/paste or dragndrop a copy into the Wallpapers folder and retain
the
>original in the new Pictures folder for safe keeping. Anywho, I’m over it at this
>point anyway. The whole, have all the image, well, all of those image files cohabitating
>in 1 My Pictures folder was more of an aesthetic issue anyway.
>
>Thanks to all respondents for the tips and suggestions.
>
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