How to delete wallpaper

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I have too much wallpaper. Would appreciate advice on deleting some. I am a
novice. Thanks
 
alanjackson29 said:
I have too much wallpaper. Would appreciate advice on deleting some. I am
a
novice. Thanks
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If you are low on disk space,
deleting wallpaper is not the way to do it...it takes up very little space
 
alanjackson29 said:
I have too much wallpaper. Would appreciate advice on deleting some. I am a
novice. Thanks
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Locations for Wallpaper Images

[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 ***]
 
alanjackson29 said:
I have too much wallpaper. Would appreciate advice on deleting some.
I am a
novice. Thanks
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People who say this usually mean that they've put all their personal
pictures into the My Pictures folder and now they show up in the
Wallpaper list (Display applet). The way to deal with this is to make a
new folder called "Pictures" (or whatever you like) in My Documents and
not in My Pictures. Move your personal pictures into that folder. Then
if you want to set one of your own pictures as the Desktop wallpaper,
just browse to your folder.

Malke
 
Why do you want to delete, are you running out of space? To be safe you
need to delete files that have a .bmp suffix or extension. You can find
these in a variety of folders within your C or D drive depending on your
hard drive(s). I wouldn't recommend monkeying around with any that came with
Windows. There are so few and take up so little room. If you have installed
some on your hard drive and can't find the folder to dump them then go to
your start button, click search, then click on "all files and folders" and
put in *.bmp to find them. If you have loads of hard drive room I would
leave them be especially if you are a novice. Deleting can be very dangerous
if you don't know what you're doing, a trip to the local computer store to
fix something you shouldn't have deleted can be painful and expensive!!!
 
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