Desktop pictures

External Since: May 15, 2006 Posts: 1

I am trying to help my sister who is also using windows xp, and she has a
problem. When she right clicks on her desktop, and goes under
properties>desktop, all her photos from her "my photos" folder show up under
the background list instead of the normal windows backgrounds. Anyone else
ever had this problem, or know how to fix it?

External Since: Mar 12, 2005 Posts: 883

38EDDB68-0630-47C4-9215-F349FBAB9671.RemoveThis@microsoft.com,
thebigdintexas
wrote:
> I am trying to help my sister who is also using windows xp,
> and she has a problem. When she right clicks on her desktop,
> and goes under properties>desktop, all her photos from her
> "my photos" folder show up under the background list instead
> of the normal windows backgrounds. Anyone else ever had this
> problem, or know how to fix it?

Take a look here for an explanation of why that happens,

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Pictures list - Display Properties Background tab
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/background.htm

Bottom line is that the only fix is to move all your sister's
photos from the My Pictures folder (and its sub-folders).
Unfortuately, that may be an incovenience as many devices, e.g.
scanners and digital cameras, use that folder as their default
storage location.

Good luck

Nepatsfan