Need Some Help With Desktops/Screensavers

[brycedriesenga]

Alright, here is my problem. Although it is not a major one, it is very
annoying to me. What I want to do is to be able to clean out what
Desktops and Screensavers show up in the "Display Properties" box. What
I mean is, I have all these old desktops and screensavers from my old
Windows 98 installation that were copied over when I upgraded. You may
see how this would be annoying, so, if you know any way I can clean
them out, any help would be greatly appreciated.
...
Bryce

 

[Malke]

Alright, here is my problem. Although it is not a major one, it is
very annoying to me. What I want to do is to be able to clean out what
Desktops and Screensavers show up in the "Display Properties" box.
What I mean is, I have all these old desktops and screensavers from my
old Windows 98 installation that were copied over when I upgraded. You
may see how this would be annoying, so, if you know any way I can
clean them out, any help would be greatly appreciated.

For the problem with Desktop backgrounds:

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 ***]

Either delete your backgrounds from those locations or move them to a
folder outside of My Documents\My Pictures which is where they probably
are (or back them up off the hard drive).

For the problem with screensavers:

Do a Search for *.scr. This will locate the screensavers. Identify the
ones you don't want and either delete them or move them to a folder in
your My Documents (or back them up off the hard drive).

Malke

 

[brycedriesenga]

Hey man, thanks for the help. I didn't even think of just going through
the folders.

Alright, here is my problem. Although it is not a major one, it is
very annoying to me. What I want to do is to be able to clean out what
Desktops and Screensavers show up in the "Display Properties" box.
What I mean is, I have all these old desktops and screensavers from my
old Windows 98 installation that were copied over when I upgraded. You
may see how this would be annoying, so, if you know any way I can
clean them out, any help would be greatly appreciated.

For the problem with Desktop backgrounds:

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 ***]

Either delete your backgrounds from those locations or move them to a
folder outside of My Documents\My Pictures which is where they probably
are (or back them up off the hard drive).

For the problem with screensavers:

Do a Search for *.scr. This will locate the screensavers. Identify the
ones you don't want and either delete them or move them to a folder in
your My Documents (or back them up off the hard drive).

Malke
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