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[Guest]

Where are desktop pictures stored in Windows XP & how do I get there?

Thanks;

Tigger

 

[JS]

If you mean Wallpaper then it's: C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper

JS

 

[Gordon]

Where are desktop pictures stored in Windows XP & how do I get there?

Thanks;

Tigger

Try news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

 

[Guest]

thanks JS but there are other pics stored in the display properties desktop
option that I would like to get to. Do you have any idea how to get to those?

 

[Guest]

For Windows XP:

Desktop background pictures are in %userprofile%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Try news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

Why? He's not asking about Vista.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
http://www.fjsmjs.com
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

 

[antioch]

Why? He's not asking about Vista.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
http://www.fjsmjs.com
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security"

That's Gordon for you ;-)

 

[Guest]

I appreciate your reply as it is clear that I am not asking about Vista BUT
can you help me solve my dilema please?

Thnx.

 

[antioch]

I appreciate your reply as it is clear that I am not asking about Vista BUT
can you help me solve my dilema please?

Thnx.

Sorry
Do you mean your own pictures which you want to use as
background/wallpapers?
Antioch

 

[Guest]

Yes I have 3 of my own that are in there that I want to copy out to pic file.

 

[Bob I]

Probably in your "My Pictures" folder then. Otherwise WinKey+F and type
in the filename.

 

[Guest]

Sorry my last post was for backgrounds that you save directly out of internet
explorer.

You can use filemon from sysinternals and go into your desktop backgrounds
in display properties, click each picture you want to save while running
filemon in the background. Filemon will show a Query as to the path of where
the picture is located if you scroll through filemon for it. Kind of a long
way of doing it but I tested it on my end and was able to see where my custom
backgrounds were.

CJ

 

[Gordon]

Why? He's not asking about Vista.

Must be deja vue then........ ;-)

 

[Guest]

I very much appreciate this info if it will help me copy those picks to my
pic folder but i am not very computer literate. I do follow directions well
so if you would please share with me how to do what you have said i would be
very pleased.

Thnx.

 

[Guest]

1. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

2. Scroll to the bottom of that web page and Download 32-bit versions of
NT/2K/XP/Server 2003

3. Save the download to a location that you will know where to get it

4. After download, browse to the location of where you saved filemon

5. Right click on the filemon.zip and choose Extract All...

6 Select next (defaults) and next again, which should unzip the folder into
the same place you downloaded filemon

7. Open the filemonNT folder and open Filemon.exe

8. By default it will start monitoring all activity of the files accessed in
xp as you should see

9. Open your Display Properties (where you choose your different
backgrounds) which can be access in the Control Panel under "Display" (or
right click anywhere but an icon or taskbar on the desktop and choose
"Properties")

10. Select the Desktop Tab at the tob of the Display Properties Window

11. With filemon.exe running already, inside of the Display Properties
window select each one of the backgrounds that you need recovered

12. Filmon will log the queries to the backgrounds
13. Go into filemon which is alread open and push CTRL+E on your keyboard
which will stop filemon from activly monitoring file activity

14. You can now scroll up through the list and find the entries that say for
Example: "10:52:05 AM rundll32.exe QUERY INFORMATION
C:\Backgrounds\mybackground.jpg SUCCESS Length:"

15. You should be able to locate the background now by browsing to the
location of the picture file that it specified which in my case was:
C:\Backgrounds\mybackground.jpg.

16. You should be able to copy this file now


I hope this makes a little bit of sense anyway

CJ

 

[Guest]

Ty very much process worked & directions were very clear. I very much
thank-you for your time.

Thnx;

Kim

 

[Guest]

Your welcome. Glad to help!

CJ

Ty very much process worked & directions were very clear. I very much
thank-you for your time.

Thnx;

Kim

 

[Guest]

If you have more time i just posted another thread called POP-UP BOX CLEANING
that I need to get an offensive link (that is not attached to anything/does
not go anywhere) off the screen.

 

[Rock]

Where are desktop pictures stored in Windows XP & how do I get there?

Thanks;

Tigger

Wallpaper images are taken from these folders:

[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 ***]

 

[lost]

Where are desktop pictures stored in Windows XP & how do I get there?

Thanks;

Tigger