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I am running Windows XP SP2, patched to the latest security patches. I normally use 'azul.jpg' as my wallpaper. Recently, I was on a website and inadvertently set an image as my wallpaper. After a few minutes, I went to Destkop Properties, Desktop tab and looked in the 'Background' list to reset my background to my beloved 'azul.jpg', but alas it was missing! In fact, all I see in the list are files of type '.bmp'. Any idea of what could have happened, and how I get the jpg's back in my list??? In addtion, if I try to browse to 'azul.jpg', or another jpg for that matter, the file will not get opened. Thanks in advance. Mike Mike added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
> Hi - On my XP Pro SP2 system, while I can easily use any JPEG as > > I am running Windows XP SP2, patched to the latest security > patches. I normally use 'azul.jpg' as my wallpaper. > Recently, I was on a website and inadvertently set an image as > my wallpaper. After a few minutes, I went to Destkop > Properties, Desktop tab and looked in the 'Background' list to > reset my background to my beloved 'azul.jpg', but alas it was > missing! In fact, all I see in the list are files of type > '.bmp'. Any idea of what could have happened, and how I get > the jpg's back in my list??? In addtion, if I try to browse > to 'azul.jpg', or another jpg for that matter, the file will > not get opened. > wallpaper, if I go back to the Desktop Properties, indeed the previous one isn't listed nor are any I've previously used. Instead, I must re-browse to get it back. A nuscience to be sure but probably a "feature" going back to when Windows only recognized BMP files for wallpaper. But, I do not understand why your system won't re-open the file, if it is still valid and didn't get corrupted somehow; seems to work OK for me, but I use the Power Towy Wallpaper Changer to flip through an entire folder full of JPEGs at pre-set time intervals and haven't manually set wallpaper in sometime. -- HP, aka Jerry "Never complain, never explain" - Henry Ford II Well, I figured out what it was. Not sure how this got set, but, in the
registery I found the following item: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop\NoHTMLWallPaper set to 1. I reset it to 0, and I could finally see the list of all backgrounds. Anyone know how/why this would have been set? Mike Show quote "HEMI-Powered" <n***@none.en> wrote in message news:Xns99F45E85CD1DCReplyScoreID@140.99.99.130... > Mike added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... > >> Hi - >> >> I am running Windows XP SP2, patched to the latest security >> patches. I normally use 'azul.jpg' as my wallpaper. >> Recently, I was on a website and inadvertently set an image as >> my wallpaper. After a few minutes, I went to Destkop >> Properties, Desktop tab and looked in the 'Background' list to >> reset my background to my beloved 'azul.jpg', but alas it was >> missing! In fact, all I see in the list are files of type >> '.bmp'. Any idea of what could have happened, and how I get >> the jpg's back in my list??? In addtion, if I try to browse >> to 'azul.jpg', or another jpg for that matter, the file will >> not get opened. >> > On my XP Pro SP2 system, while I can easily use any JPEG as > wallpaper, if I go back to the Desktop Properties, indeed the > previous one isn't listed nor are any I've previously used. > Instead, I must re-browse to get it back. A nuscience to be sure > but probably a "feature" going back to when Windows only recognized > BMP files for wallpaper. But, I do not understand why your system > won't re-open the file, if it is still valid and didn't get > corrupted somehow; seems to work OK for me, but I use the Power > Towy Wallpaper Changer to flip through an entire folder full of > JPEGs at pre-set time intervals and haven't manually set wallpaper > in sometime. > > -- > HP, aka Jerry > > "Never complain, never explain" - Henry Ford II Mike added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
> Well, I figured out what it was. Not sure how this got set, Thanks for the info, Mike! I never knew about this Registry > but, in the registery I found the following item: > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol > icies\ActiveDesktop\NoHTMLWallPaper > > set to 1. I reset it to 0, and I could finally see the list > of all backgrounds. Anyone know how/why this would have been > set? > key/item, maybe that will help me, also. How did you discover this? BTW, you may like the Power Toy Wallpaper Changer; I find it makes seeing a variety of pictures very easy to do. -- HP, aka Jerry "Never complain, never explain" - Henry Ford II  |
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