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.
This article was posted in Windows XP.
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sue bennett
Yesterday my pc crashed, again, and after I rebooted, i magically had all new themes on my home page that I was never able to set before, well i thought it was a fluke of course, but its still working and if u ask me, it looks like IE8. It has a index on the left side for the start menu.Well i downloaded IE8 once, didnt like it and went back to 7.And if i remember correctly, IE8 had the same feature.Now i'm trying to change it and it wont budge,which is why i'm going to try suggestion above.It would be nice to know whats going on. thanks
Tangmeister
Hey, Vishal,
I have another thing/comment to add to this conversation about the wallpapers...
I don't know WHAT's going on, but I only can see default pics and EVERY picture in my Pictures folder... yet after I extracted Win7 wallpapers to C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper, it doesn't recognize them...
Not even clicking the default ones works... doesn't show up in the list anyways, except Zapotec, which is always there and could work, but is ugly anyways.
I have to manually browse to the folder and use the prompt in the Left side Task Pane, but this is stupid.
PS, when I click "browse", it sends me to my Pictures folder, "F:\Pictures" (I changed the name so the start menu would be more realistic.)
Tangmeister
I'VE FOUND THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-4_102-0.html?threadID=41549
!!!!!!
I must have disabled a key feature (Allow web content to be added to desktop, under "Explorer" in Tweak UI) in Tweak UI that made Windows do this:
-Ignore all jpg files and prevent them from being selected
-think that something was messed up and, therefore, my Pictures folder was the only resort
-forget to disable the function included in the Common Task Pane
-Show only .bmp files
SORRY AND THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN ANYWAYS.