Question about wallpaper.....

I have XP Pro SP2 on my home PC. The files from My Pictures are now being listed in Display Properties/Desktop. They weren't listed here the last time I changed my wallpaper which was maybe 3 weeks ago. It's not a big deal, but I simply do not want the stuff in My Pictures to show up in the list of available wallpapers. If I want something in the wallpaper list, I generally copy it to C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper. So, I how do I prevent the files in My Pictures from being listed in my desktop wallpaper list?

Thanks!

 

:innocent Anybody? Anything?

 

OK.... this is my last bump on this. I've tried searching via Google, but I can't seem to get a good search term that succinctly sums up my question. The things I have found generally apply to adding or using the files from "My Pictures" to the available wallpapers and nothing explains how to remove the files that are currently in "My Pictures" from being listed as available wallpaper. I don't want to remove the stuff in "My Pictures", I just don't want the pictures listed as being available wallpaper choices in Display Properties > Desktop. The thing is, they weren't listed until just recently.

 

Thanks for the link and info.... I'll check it out when I have a bit more time. But why would the stuff from "My Pictures" just now show up in the wallpaper list? It wasn't there until recently. I had a bit of a codec meltdown and had to remove/reload a bunch of codecs and some of the media file associations were changed in the process (VLC was the default media player for video files with the orange cone icon, but after the codec issue Nero Showtime took over but that's not a big deal). Could this have something to do with 'My Pictures' now being listed in the wallpapers?

 

This might also help: Change Default Wallpaper Folder to My Pictures on Windows XP.

Edit: I know title says "change to" but the article also discusses how to remove.