Disableing Windows Xp To Automaticly To..

[Wolfmight]

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}]

Put your pics in another folder instead of 'my pictures'

[Wolfmight]

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]

do you have the indexing service running?

[shn]

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]

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]

I didn't know that XP automatically scanned My Pictures for wallpaper images to begin with.
Mine certainly doesn't.

[Wolfmight]

Well I need a regpatch or something to fix it. And I need to remove all the ones currently in there. any ideas?

[ninjamonkey]

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]

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]

Mine used to...
now it doesn't though (just noticed)

very strange. :blink:

[Jg427]

Damn, I read that as screensaver instead of wallpaper, nevermind. :huh:

[sparsely]

The highlighted button holds the solution to your problems.

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*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.