Scanner and Camera Wizard

[Fattyb]

Windows XP Service Pack 3

If you open the Scanner and Camera Wizard, and follow the steps to the "Picture Name and Destination" page, you will see 3 items, each with a pulldown list.

I am trying to figure out how to "Clear" the 1st and 3rd lists, as there are tons of "Recently Used" names of files and folders in those lists, and I don't use most of them anymore.

For more clarification here are posts by other people who have the exact same, unresolved issue:

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/scanner-and-camera-wizard/132851.html

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=9391

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=94884

We can clear the #1 Picture Names list by deleting the WIA MRU's, however the #3 My Pictures Locations is unresolved.

Thank you all for your help, this one is going to be tough.

*Crap Cleaner, Disk Cleanup, and MRU-Blaster all fail to clear this list.

 

[Fattyb]

*Sorry to bump, but I noticed a lot of ad spamming lately. I don't want this to get buried.

 

[Bob I]

This is a newsgroup, "BUMP" means nothing, and you neglected to quote
any of the previous message info in the thread so no one knows what you
are asking without retrieving the thread from archives.

 

[Paul]

Windows XP Service Pack 3

If you open the Scanner and Camera Wizard, and follow the steps to the "Picture Name and Destination" page,
you will see 3 items, each with a pulldown list.

I am trying to figure out how to "Clear" the 1st and 3rd lists, as there are tons of "Recently Used" names
of files and folders in those lists, and I don't use most of them anymore.

For more clarification here are posts by other people who have the exact same, unresolved issue:

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/scanner-and-camera-wizard/132851.html

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=9391

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=94884

We can clear the #1 Picture Names list by deleting the WIA MRU's, however the #3 My Pictures Locations
is unresolved.

Thank you all for your help, this one is going to be tough.

*Crap Cleaner, Disk Cleanup, and MRU-Blaster all fail to clear this list.

I started here, to reproduce your description. I have a webcam connected to test.
This was with WinXP Pro SP3.

Start : Control Panel : Scanners and Cameras

I select my "USB Video Device", as I have a UVC compatible webcam that needs no driver.

I see "Scanner and Camera Wizard". I do "Next" and "Next".

Now I see:

1. Type a name for this group of pictures

small

2. Choose a place to save this group of pictures

My Pictures\small

[ ] Delete pictures from my device after copying them

I don't have a #3 My Pictures locations.

Logically, the registry key I can find (referenced in your web articles), seems
to correspond to my two entries in the above dialog. Have you checked this key,
to see if it has a third entry ?

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WIA\WiaAcqusitionManager
DirectoryNameMru REG_BINARY 0c 00 00 ... <--- 72 bytes of junk
RootFileNameMru REG_MULTI_SZ small Picture

Another option, would be to use one of the Sysinternals programs
that traces program execution, and it watches registry access. You
may be able to trace the execution of wiaacmgr.exe and see it accessing
the registry, and then perhaps the registry location of your #3 entry
may become known. You would start the program tracing thing first,
then start the Scanner and Camera Wizard, then watch as the registry
entries are logged. After the above three item list has been displayed
on the screen, the program tracing should have recorded what registry
key was read, to populate the list.

It may not be sufficient to do a text search in the registry, if the
information is stored in a form similar to DirectoryNameMru. Computers
can either use symbolic names to refer to files or directories, or
they usually have an option to refer to files with numbers. It could be
that the annoying item is stored as a number. Using numbers may
serve as a way to locate things in the file system, even if the
user decides to rename a file or folder.

HTH,
Paul