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XP Desktop Wallpaper hassle

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Okay, here's the problem. I have thousands of pictures stored in various folders within the My Pictures folder, only a few of which are desktop wallpapers. When I click on the Display Properties, and select the Desktop tab, Windows Explorer crashes whilst it tries to scan all the pics within My Pictures. Is there any way to change this? or do I have to move all my pics to a different folder so that Explorer can't find them?
 
If you are looking to change JUST your desktop wallpaper, open the picture you want to change it to (from where ever it is currently saved). Right click on the image and select "use image as desktop/background" or something similar.
 
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That's how I usually do it; but just now I tried the Display Properties - Desktop tab - for the first time in years, and I just realised that XP appears to scan every single image contained within My Pictures. I was just curious to know if there was a way to stop it from doing that.
 
I already have it set to not cache thumbnails, and the only skinning thing I use is a theme patcher dll that lets you use non-microsoft themes, although at the moment it's just set to the default XP theme.
 
Hmmmmm, well that was odd; running sfc /scannow seems to have disabled the theme patcher, but it hasn't solved the My Pictures folder scanning trouble. I think I'll just move all my non-wallpaper pics to a different folder.
 
*Hoody* said:
Hmmmmm, well that was odd; running sfc /scannow seems to have disabled the theme patcher, but it hasn't solved the My Pictures folder scanning trouble. I think I'll just move all my non-wallpaper pics to a different folder.
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That's what I did to get around that. I have folders in the "my documents" for pictures that I don't want to be used for wallpapers. It's the only thing that I have found to get around what you are talking about.
 
The window that lets you change your desktop wallpaper in the "Desktop Properties" is really only able to handle a small number of high resolution pictures, or a medium number of lower resolution pictures. It's a documented problem with XP that too many pictures, or a few that are really high res, cause XP to shit itself! :p

Moving the folders around is pretty much the only thing that you can do in this case.
 
joer said:
That's what I did to get around that. I have folders in the "my documents" for pictures that I don't want to be used for wallpapers. It's the only thing that I have found to get around what you are talking about.
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I have a separate folder for wallpapers my self
 
One thing you all should do is not saving private data in those "My something something" folders. That's the first folders where virii, trojans and other malicious software look for, also when your system partition crashes, it's all gone and you might have a harder time to recover the data. Create a folder like "Private data" on another partition and save all your stuff in subfolders ("Pictures", "Music", "Documents", "Movies"...) there.
 
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