wallpaper points to wrong folder

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display properties /desktop/ backround points to a my pictures folder and
takes a long time loading a pile of pictures. how can I get it to point to
proper folder?
win XP home SP2 installed
 
LarryM said:
display properties /desktop/ backround points to a my pictures folder and
takes a long time loading a pile of pictures. how can I get it to point to
proper folder?
win XP home SP2 installed
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By default XP looks in the My Pictures folder as well as other places,
for images to display for the desktop background. If you don't want
them shown in as a choice, move them elsewhere.

Courtesy of Ramesh - Microsoft MVP]

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 ***]
 
the problem is that instead of pointing to C/windows/web/wallpaper the
backround is only showing the contents of a folder in my pictures which is
large and takes several minutes to load (not a function of "browse" which is
also defaulting to the my pictures folder)
can I re-point this function to the original default
 
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