Is there ANY way to control which pictures on my computer are displayed in
Windows XP Home's "My Pictures" screensaver? I know that you can set it to
use pictures from a given directory (in this case \My Pictures). BUT I have
a few sub-folders with pictures that I do not want included in the
screensaver's display because they are Business related pictures that are
NOT for general viewing. Any ideas? Other than moving the sub-folders out of
the \My Pictures directory which I *think* will work but haven't tried yet.
For filing simplicity it would be nice to keep them in \My
Pictures\ClientPics. IOWs how can I exclude just the one subdirectory from
the display.

TIA

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Hi,

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/p.../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.

Add Folders to the "Save As" Dialog (Places Bar) Line 117
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Disable Default Save As to My Pictures (Line 111)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Add Folder to Start Menu to replace/re-route My Pictures (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it
and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by
right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.

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Is there ANY way to control which pictures on my computer are displayed in
Windows XP Home's "My Pictures" screensaver? I know that you can set it
to
use pictures from a given directory (in this case \My Pictures). BUT I
have
a few sub-folders with pictures that I do not want included in the
screensaver's display because they are Business related pictures that are
NOT for general viewing. Any ideas? Other than moving the sub-folders out
of
the \My Pictures directory which I *think* will work but haven't tried
yet.
For filing simplicity it would be nice to keep them in \My
Pictures\ClientPics. IOWs how can I exclude just the one subdirectory from
the display.

TIA

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