windowsxpnovice wrote:

> I just got my new computer and I'm not too familiar with windows xp.
> I took several cd's that had pictures on them and put them onto the
> harddrive under
> a folder in my documents. I've noticed that all of the pictures that
> I put in this folder are now showing up in my control panel as
> pictures that I can
> use for the desktop backround screen. I can't right click and delete
> them
> and I can't seem to find any way to get rid of them. Does anyone know
> of a way to restrict these photos from being available to other
> applications? Thanks!

Make a new folder for your pictures and move the pictures into it.

From MVP Ramesh - Windows XP fetches image files from the following
paths:

BMP Files from C:\WINDOWS

BMP, JPG, GIF, JPE, DIB, PNG, HTM files from the following locations:

C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\My Documents\My Pictures [& ALL
THE SUB-FOLDERS]
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
C:\Program Files\Plus!\Themes [*** & ALL THE SUB-FOLDERS ***]

So make a new folder in My Documents cleverly called something like
"pictures" and the files in there won't show up in the Display applet.

Malke
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