Deleting Wallpaper Items

[Stanley S. Glazer]

I wantto change the wallpaper on my desktop. Running Windows XP. Opened
Display Properties Desktop and there are many entries in the Background
dialog box that I would like to remove but I can't, no matter what I do. I
can easily install whatever photo I want as desktop wallpaper--that's no
problem but I would like to erase some of the clutter that's listed; I'm not
referring to the default items, just the stuff I must have put there one
time when I was fooling around. Stan

 

[Michael O]

I wantto change the wallpaper on my desktop. Running Windows XP. Opened
Display Properties Desktop and there are many entries in the Background
dialog box that I would like to remove but I can't, no matter what I do. I
can easily install whatever photo I want as desktop wallpaper--that's no
problem but I would like to erase some of the clutter that's listed; I'm not
referring to the default items, just the stuff I must have put there one
time when I was fooling around. Stan

Start -> Search, type the name of the wallpaper, select search system files
under advanced options.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Stanley,

The pictures that show up under display properties, desktop are located in
these folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\user name\My Documents\My Pictures
C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

Under My Computer scroll down to Shared Documents/Shared Pictures. If
Shared Pictures is listed, remove it.

TweakUI for XP: Unchecking "Lock Web Content" under Explorer to be added
to desktop disables the pictures from being listed.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Workarounds:

Create another folder (under your user profile), remove the pictures from My
Pictures that you don't want listed under Backgrounds and in the My Pictures
folder, create a shortcut to the new folder. Or create subfolders within My
Pictures.

Add Folders to the "Save As" Dialog (Places Bar) Line 117
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Disable Default Save As to My Pictures (Line 263)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Add Folder to Start Menu to replace/re-route My Pictures (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it
and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by
right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.