JimTheAverage
Fri Jan 18 16:57:33 PST 2008
Thanks Alan! Who knew about the change in behaviour at 100 images?
But, as for reducing cross-posting, that also reduces the number of people
that see the solution.
Cross-posting is NOT a bad thing. In fact, it saves system resources (one
messaage with pointers from othe NGs saves space and bandwidth).
Multi-posting is bad (as it consumes resources by sending the same message
to multiple groups on every mail server).
Thanks again.
(cross-posting resumed)
"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
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> {crossposting reduced}
>
> I have come across it and have this snippet on file:
>
> The places wallpaper can be.
>
> 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\<username>\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Pictures
> (+subfolders)
>
> C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes (+subfolders)
>
> I have the first 3 showing but files in My Pictures do not show and I
> believe they will stop showing in yours after you get 100 image files
> in My Pictures.
>
> ...Alan
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
>
http://dts-l.com/index.htm
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:04:19 -0500, in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "JimTheAverage" <jim@home.net>
> wrote:
>
>>When I right click on my XP Pro SP2 desktop and select Properties>Desktop
>>the Background listbox doesn't just list the files in
>>%SystemRoot%/Web/Wallpaper. It lists those plus every bmp file in the My
>>Pictures folder and sub folders.
>>
>>I searched the registry for "wallpaper" and found that
>>HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion's WallpaperDir setting was
>>in
>>fact set to %SystemRoot%/Web/Wallpaper. So I dno't get where the other
>>files are coming from.
>>
>>The problem here is that this is a new build and I haven't even started to
>>put in my THOUSANDS of images into My Pictures yet. When I do, if this
>>behavior persists, it will most likely freeze my Display properties dialog
>>and make picking out wallpaper form the thousands of images that I have
>>quite messy if not downright impossible.
>>
>>Has anyone seen this behaviour in XP or know of a fix for it?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>jim