Desktop Pictures

[Stephen Reed]

Hi,

I've got a brand new Dell about 3 months old with XP Pro installed.
Everything has been fine up till today when I wanted to change the desktop
picture. I usually change the picture every month, but this time all my
photos from the 'My picture Folder' about 1000 or so are in the column as
well and hard to find the original 'background or desktop pictures'!

As far as I know I have not been messing with anything, or installed any
programmes apart from Microsoft updates.. I can give you another clue, that
when if I click Browse and Background files is highlighted they still show
jpegs.! What's happened?

Steve

 

[Nightowl]

Hi,

I've got a brand new Dell about 3 months old with XP Pro installed.
Everything has been fine up till today when I wanted to change the desktop
picture. I usually change the picture every month, but this time all my
photos from the 'My picture Folder' about 1000 or so are in the column as
well and hard to find the original 'background or desktop pictures'!

As far as I know I have not been messing with anything, or installed any
programmes apart from Microsoft updates.. I can give you another clue, that
when if I click Browse and Background files is highlighted they still show
jpegs.! What's happened?

Hi Steve

Nothing's happened XP is behaving the way it's supposed to. It
looks in the My Pictures folder (and any sub-folders) for images to
display as wallpaper. If you don't want your pictures in the wallpaper
listing, you'll have to move them elsewhere.

MVP Ramesh posted that Windows XP looks for image files in these
places:

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\<Username>\My Documents\My Pictures (and all
sub-folders);
C:\Docs and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer;
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes (and all sub-folders)

Hope this helps.