Pics in "My Pictures" showing up in Display CP

[Mark Sandbothe]

How can I keep the photos from the My Pictures folder from showing up in the
desktop background list in the display control panel?

 

[John Inzer]

How can I keep the photos from the My Pictures folder
from showing up in the desktop background list in the
display control panel?

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By design, all images in your My Pictures folder
will be available in the Desktop Background list.
If you wish to remove your images from this list
all you have to do is move the images to a different
folder outside of the My Pictures folder. A New
Folder in My Documents...for example.

To move the contents of your My Pictures folder...
open the folder and go to...Edit / Select All...
In your "Picture Tasks" pane...choose "Move the
selected items"...

On your "Move Items" screen...choose or create
a new folder and left click the "Move " button.

I have noticed that if I exceed 100 images in My
Pictures the files no longer show in the Background
list. There may be a way to edit this number but I
don't know how.

If you wish to delete all the images in your My
Pictures folder...open the folder and go to...

Edit / Select All...
File / Delete...

When the dialog box says...

Are you sure you want to send these XX items to
the recycle bin?

Click "Yes".

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[Mark]

I wonder if there's a way to redirect the folder that the desktop wallpaper
control looks for. Seems there would have to be a setting somewhere - seems
an odd thing to hard code.

 

[Guest]

Hi Mark,

I came to this discussion group with the exact same question you had but I
couldn't figure out how to get my question posted!

Did you find John's answer helpful?