Where do wallpapers go and can you get rid of the stock ones?

January 6, 2003 2:49 PM from

What is the default folder that wallpapers are stored in, and can you get rid of (safely) some of the stock ones that come with XP?

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Reply #1 January 6, 2003 2:57 PM from

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I don't know about XP, but in win2k they are in c:\winnt and yes, you can delete them all but the one you have selected to use.

Reply #2 January 6, 2003 2:59 PM from

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although, I suppose that if you choose 'none' then you can delete them all.

Reply #3 January 6, 2003 4:03 PM from

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Starting with 2k Windows searches for walls in the win-dir (c:\winnt or c:\windows) and in 'My Pictures'.

Reply #4 January 6, 2003 4:20 PM from

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hmmm... None of the pics in 'My Pictures' are available in the list of wallpapers and they are .bmp's

Reply #5 January 6, 2003 6:04 PM from

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Try c:windows/web/wallpaper/. I have never deleted any that came with XP.

Reply #6 January 6, 2003 6:21 PM from

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Why would you?

Reply #7 January 6, 2003 7:45 PM from

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GO to c drive open winnt The wall paper is in that folder look around.

Reply #8 January 6, 2003 7:47 PM from

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Yes you can delete it from winnt ,its safe to delete it.

Reply #9 January 6, 2003 8:11 PM from

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Newtron..the walls for XP are in c:\windows\web\wallpaper, and if you have images in your 'windows' directory they will be available too via your display properties.

Any and all of them can be deleted...

Reply #10 January 7, 2003 9:59 PM from

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if you have bliss installed it wont let you delete that one however well wont let me anyways

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