display properties

[Guest]

My display properties/desktop has over 100 graphic images seemingly randomly
taken from "my pictures" folder. It is not a life threatening problem, but I
believe the few original graphics available on a new xp install came from the
"windows/web/wallpaper" folder?? How can I change the folder from which xp
currently gets these images back to the original???? My machine only has one
user and that one user has not knowingly added the files from my pictures.
Many thanks in advance
jbroll

 

[Malke]

My display properties/desktop has over 100 graphic images seemingly randomly
taken from "my pictures" folder. It is not a life threatening problem, but I
believe the few original graphics available on a new xp install came from the
"windows/web/wallpaper" folder?? How can I change the folder from which xp
currently gets these images back to the original???? My machine only has one
user and that one user has not knowingly added the files from my pictures.
Many thanks in advance
jbroll

From MVP Ramesh - Windows XP fetches 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 ***]

Most people find that your issue occurs when they have a lot of pictures
in the My Pictures folder. It is after all a logical place to put
pictures, but to prevent having this long list of available desktop
backgrounds the workaround is to make a new folder for your pictures in
your My Documents folder - outside of the My Pictures folder.

Malke