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Wolfmight
07-16-2004, 03:11 PM
How do I disable the setting that allows XP to automaticly scan and use MyPictures for the desktop wallpapers? I have thousands of pictures and the damn desktop wallpaper thing only holds so many. Now I cant even change my wallpaper to a custom one because of this! I want the list empty! I dont want it to automaticly use the images for wallpapers!
{I}{K}{E}
07-16-2004, 03:43 PM
Put your pics in another folder instead of 'my pictures'
Wolfmight
07-16-2004, 03:47 PM
already tried that.. still had them and allowed me to use the same images.. do I need to delete some kind of cache somewhere also?
Storm
07-16-2004, 03:51 PM
do you have the indexing service running?
Try the Microsoft virtul desktop manager. You can select a different wallpaper image for each desktop and it will stay on that wallpaper setting.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx)
chinook_apache
07-16-2004, 11:00 PM
if you have a seperate drive eg c and d drive how about saving them in d:\...
i do that since i have a partinoned hdd and none of the images, wallpapers appear in the list when selecting wallpaper.
clocker
07-16-2004, 11:03 PM
I didn't know that XP automatically scanned My Pictures for wallpaper images to begin with.
Mine certainly doesn't.
Wolfmight
07-19-2004, 04:18 PM
Well I need a regpatch or something to fix it. And I need to remove all the ones currently in there. any ideas?
ninjamonkey
07-19-2004, 06:26 PM
Originally posted by clocker@16 July 2004 - 23:11
I didn't know that XP automatically scanned My Pictures for wallpaper images to begin with.
Mine certainly doesn't.
same thing here.
I didn't know it did it and mine doesn't.
Ariel_001
07-19-2004, 06:47 PM
Originally posted by clocker@16 July 2004 - 19:11
I didn't know that XP automatically scanned My Pictures for wallpaper images to begin with.
Mine certainly doesn't.
My copy does not do that too.. Maybe you have something doing that (spy/AD ware)
tesco
07-19-2004, 06:50 PM
Mine used to...
now it doesn't though (just noticed)
very strange. :blink:
Jg427
07-20-2004, 01:02 AM
Damn, I read that as screensaver instead of wallpaper, nevermind. :huh:
sparsely
07-20-2004, 01:29 AM
The highlighted button holds the solution to your problems.
http://www.sparsely.net/linkimg/dp.png
*editI
but here's a tip from neowin
In the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion] the value name is WallpaperDir.
Just change the value to what ever folder you want.
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