Display Properties

[Guest]

How can I remove items from the background list in Display
Properties/Desktop. There is no info on this in XP documentation under
"background and themes". I know this should be simple but there is no
"delete" option on the page anywhere. Thanks for any help.
DG

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Display Properties/Desktop/Background and choose (None), which is the first
choice in the list.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but it's not a matter of choosing no desktop background, I actually
want to delete some of the choices in the background list. (A bunch of photos
from "my pictures" somehow ended up there and I want to remove them. They
clutter up the list of choices.)

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

They are in C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper. You can delete them there I should
think. You might want to move them to a folder somewhere else if you just
want to shorten the list in Properties.

 

[Sharon F]

How can I remove items from the background list in Display
Properties/Desktop. There is no info on this in XP documentation under
"background and themes". I know this should be simple but there is no
"delete" option on the page anywhere. Thanks for any help.
DG

The list is pulled from several locations: your Windows folder,
\windows\web\wallpaper\, ..\My Pictures\Sample Pictures and the main folder
for your account's My Pictures.

Open Windows Explorer to those folders and delete the wallpapers that you
don't want.

 

[Guest]

Hello dama1,
I have exactly the same question as you do. Did you ever get this

 

[Guest]

Hello dama1,
Did you ever get this problem resolved? I have exactly the same question.
I went to the directories suggested by 2 other folks who sent their replies
to you, but I couldn't find the list of images/photos in my
DisplayProperties/Desktop/Background list in those directories. I know that
they are in My Pictures directory but I don't want to delete them there
because they will be gone forever.

.....Appreciate your response.

Thank you,
chini001

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Windows XP fetches the image files from the following paths:

BMP Files from %Systemroot% (Windows folder)

BMP, JPG, GIF, JPE, DIB, PNG, HTM files from the following locations:
%Systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper
%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
%Programfiles%\Plus!\Themes

If you want to clear a file from that list, move the file away from the
above locations. Type each of the above paths in RUN dialog.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com