Welp, you're right it's looking at My Pictures folder. If I move all my
images out of My Pictures, it will default to the default images. Is there a
way fix this other than to not keep my pictures in My Pictures?
| Thanks guys...
|
| Malke,
| What I mean is..Background choices are lots and lots of images (mine) from
| My Pictures and subfolders (there are so many I cannot possibly check all
| the paths). What is NOT listed in Background are the normal default ones
| that come with XP...the sandune, etc. These are on my machine but not in
the
| folder that Background is indexing. I can manually browse to the folder
and
| install the Sandune etc.
|
| Wesley,
| I thought for sure it was a job for regedit...but:
|
| desktop.ini in My Pictures is exactly as you described except of course it
| has my name in Owner=
|
| Prior to running wallpapernuclear I checked out the registry entry...it
was
| loaded with MRU's. Ran wallpapernuclear and then rebooted the machine this
| cleaned out the registry mess.... But, still have tons of images from
other
| directories and not the default windows xp ones. It's indexing the wrong
| folder obviously, but I have no idea how to reset this. Gotta be a
registry
| thing right?
|
| Thanks!
|
| Rob
|
|
|
| || What Malke posted from Ramesh is correct. However...
||
|| This can happen if the desktop.ini file is missing from My Pictures
| folder.
|| And maybe if the desktop.ini file is messed up, don't know that for sure.
||
|| desktop.ini is a Hidden System file.
||
|| To display Hidden files and folders...
||
|| Start | Settings | Control Panel | Folder Options | View tab
|| Check:
|| Display the contents of system folders
|| and
|| Show hidden files and folders
|| UNCheck:
|| Hide extensions for known file types
|| and
|| Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
|| Click Apply | Click OK
||
|| When you uncheck: Hide protected operating system files,
|| you will get this message...
||
|| Warning
|| ----------
|| You have chosen to display protected operating system files (files
labeled
|| System and Hidden) in Windows Explorer.These files are required to start
| and
|| run Windows. Deleting or editing them can make your computer
| inoperable.Are
|| you sure you want to display these files?
|| ----------
||
|| Click YES.
||
|| [[Hidden files and folders will appear dimmed to indicate they are not
|| typical items.]]
|| -----
||
|| Now look through My Pictures and see if there is a desktop.ini file. Can
|| you find the desktop.ini file?
||
|| Here's what it should have in it:
||
|| [DeleteOnCopy]
|| Owner=Name Here
|| Personalized=39
|| PersonalizedName=My Pictures
|| [.ShellClassInfo]
||
[email protected],-12688
|| IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll
|| IconIndex=-101
|| -----
||
|| See also...
|| 144. Clear Wallpaper Most Frequently Used List
||
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
||
|| wallpapermruclear.reg is the file that you want.
||
|| wallpapermruclear.reg deletes the registry key:
|| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
|| CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpaper\MRU
||
|| --
|| Hope this helps. Let us know.
||
|| Wes
|| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
||
|| In || Rob Giordano (Crash) <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
|| > This is weird, it's pulling images from all different directories, none
|| > seem to be in the ones you listed below.
|| > C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper contains only what it should.
|| >
|| >
|| > || >> Rob Giordano (Crash) wrote:
|| >>
|| >>> Howdy all...
|| >>>
|| >>> Dunno how I ended up with hundreds of extraneous image files in
|| >>> Display Properties, but I'd like to reset or clean out that folder
|| >>> wherever it is or wherever those images are stored.
|| >>>
|| >>> Ocassionally I use different images for my Desktop, but usually the
|| >>> unused ones are cleared out and the default ones stay, but somehow I
|| >>> ended up with a bunch of image files in there that I've never used.
|| >>>
|| >>
|| >> From Ramesh - Windows XP fetches 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 ***]
|| >>
|| >> So now you know where to look and you can just move the images out of
|| >> where they are or delete them, as you prefer.
|| >>
|| >> Malke
|| >> --
|| >> Elephant Boy Computers
|| >>
www.elephantboycomputers.com
|| >> "Don't Panic!"
|| >> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
||
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