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This tip is for Windows XP users. When you want to change the desktop wallpaper, you right-click on desktop, select Properties and goto "Desktop" tab. Now you see a few wallpapers in the given list:
You can select any of them but if your wallpapers are somewhere else, you'll need to click on "Browse" button and then goto that folder and select the desired wallpaper.
Its not a big deal but what if you are a wallpaper freak and change the wallpaper every day or hour?It might get irritating for you to click on Browse and goto the directory each time.
Now here I'll show you a way to change the default wallpaper directory in Desktop Properties, so that whenever you'll open it, it'll show the wallpapers present in your desired folder:
1. Open regedit and goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
2. In right-side pane, you'll see a string value "WallPaperDir". Its default value will be:
%SystemRoot%\Web\Wallpaper
You have to change it to your desired wallpaper directory path. Suppose your wallpapers are stored in "E:\Wallpapers" directory, then set the value to "E:\Wallpapers".
3. Exit registry editor and open Desktop Properties again. Now it'll show all wallpapers present in the folder which you set in registry:
4. Thats it. Now you'll no longer need to browse through varioud folders each time you want to change the wallpaper.
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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed said:
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David Galbraith said:
I have a common problem that has no fix. My wallpaper dialogue includes everything in My Pictures (not a good thing). I checked the registry and the only location listed is windows\web\wallpager, so why is my computer including My Pictures under wallpaper list? I don't want to change the folder's name, but it seems to be the only choice. But why the heck is this happening to begin with?
Thanks.
VG said:
^^ Because "My Pictures" is set to default Pictures folder. If you don't want to show its content there, then you'll have to change the default Pictures folder to some other folder.
David Galbraith said:
Windows never included My Pictures in the Wallpaper list before, and since my pictures has always been the default pictures folder, I don't see how that has anythinhg to do with it. So far, no amount of googling has shown a solution other than the standard registry entry "windows\web\wallpaper", which has no effect on whether or not My Pictures is included in the wallpaper listing.
VG said:
^^ Strange. Are you using a wallpaper stored in "My Pictures" folder?
PC_R2D2_ said:
I have the same problem as user "David Galbraith". I just recently noticed that all of my photos in "My Pictures" show up in my wallpaper list. This is a huge pain in the a$$ as I have well over 50 GB of photos. I've used the registry entry, and it's still set as "windows\web\wallpaper", so that's all fine and dandy.
But does anyone know why all pictures in "My Pictures" have just recently started to pop up in Wallpaper? If it's happening to all of us within a recent time, it can't just be our individual PC: there's a bigger problem here.
Possible causes:
Virus: possibly, but my scanning indicates no.
Microsoft trying to screw all its XP users over and convert us to VISTA? Let's hope not, or else we're all effed.
Help me please!
VG said:
^^ It might happen as you applied a wallpaper stored in your "My Pictures" folder?
David Galbraith said:
No, never used a picture from there. Have to be pretty noob to do that. Maybe SP3 screws these things up.
MH said:
I'm having the same problem here. At some point in the past few months I get all the images in My Pictures listed along with all my wallpapers. I'm guessing it has something to do with SP3.
The only way I could solve this was to create a new folder within My Documents (named it "_PHOTOS") and move all my photos into it from My Pictures. After that, they no longer showed up in the Wallpapers list.