Desktop/pictures

[Mary Smith]

When I receive e-mail with a picture with it, I click
save and it goes to My Doc/my pictures. Which is fine,
but I have a scanner that scans 35mm slides and when I
scan a slide or when I download pictures from my digital
camera (cannon) they are all listed in my display
properties, desktop. I don't want hundreds of pictures
in there. I have tried delete from there but wont do it.
How can I change settings so that my pictures don't end
up there? Thanks

 

[Guest]

What software is used to grab the pics from your scanner
and slides? Probably change it in the options of that
program.

 

[Belle Starr]

Mary, I had the same problem after formatting my C drive
in Nov. I was told this is a feature of XP, but, it did
not happen before the formatting. However, I was told by
a nice person on this newsgroup that it can be stopped by
making subfolders in My Pictures and moving items into
the subfolders. Instead,I made a new folder in My
Documents and titled it My Photos. Now everything goes
there and does not show up in the desktop display
(wallpaper). When I moved the photos out off My Pictures
into My Photos they were deleted from the wallpaper
list. Hope this works for you. Belle