Screensavers and Desktop

[Fay]

Hi,
I seem to be going in circles. I have some screensavers
and some pictures in my selection for desktops that I
don't want to use. Is there some way I can delete these?
I've gone to the Add/Delete Programs section and they
aren't there, is there some way I can delete the ones I
don't use anymore...I seem to also be collecting picture
for use on my desktop that I don't necessarily want to
have go there. Any suggestions/help will be greatly
appreciated.
Fay

[Kelly]

Hi Fay,

The pictures that show up under display properties, desktop are located in
these folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\user name\My Documents\My Pictures
C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper
C:\Windows\Resources\Themes

Under My Computer scroll down to Shared Documents/Shared Pictures. If
Shared Pictures is listed, remove it.

TweakUI for XP: Unchecking "Lock Web Content" under Explorer to be added
to desktop disables the pictures from being listed.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Workarounds:

Create another folder (under your user profile), remove the pictures from My
Pictures that you don't want listed under Backgrounds and in the My Pictures
folder, create a shortcut to the new folder. Or create subfolders within My
Pictures.

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All the Best,
Kelly

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"Fay" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I seem to be going in circles. I have some screensavers
> and some pictures in my selection for desktops that I
> don't want to use. Is there some way I can delete these?
> I've gone to the Add/Delete Programs section and they
> aren't there, is there some way I can delete the ones I
> don't use anymore...I seem to also be collecting picture
> for use on my desktop that I don't necessarily want to
> have go there. Any suggestions/help will be greatly
> appreciated.
> Fay

[Richard]

Hi Fay,

Try this:

The Desktop list in "Display Properties" is from My Pictures and from
C:\Windows\Wallpaper.

The items in " My Pictures " you are stuck with. Just move the images you do
not want on the list to another folder. Ditto for the \Wallpaer files.
Delete and or move them.

Richard


"Fay" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
> I seem to be going in circles. I have some screensavers
> and some pictures in my selection for desktops that I
> don't want to use. Is there some way I can delete these?
> I've gone to the Add/Delete Programs section and they
> aren't there, is there some way I can delete the ones I
> don't use anymore...I seem to also be collecting picture
> for use on my desktop that I don't necessarily want to
> have go there. Any suggestions/help will be greatly
> appreciated.
> Fay