Display Desktop

[SpywareDr]

Right-click any blank space on your Windows XP Desktop, select Properties then click the Desktop tab. Down in the Background section is a list of the standard XP wallpaper images ... plus any that may have been added to the default C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper folder.

To the right of that Background section is a Browse... button. When you click it, you can browse to any folder on any drive currently available. If you select a picture from any of these other folders, Windows will remember that folder location. So, the next time you click the Browse... button, you won't have to dig to try and find it again.

[Coach17]

What I cannot understand is that I have never in all the years of having a PC I have never had My Pictures come up under the Desktop Tab. When I click on that tab it takes almost two minutes to open up because it is looking for photos.
Last week my drive had to be reformatted and load windows again and that is when it all started. It was never that way before.

[DeP]

Maybe you never had that many pictures in your 'My Pictures' folder?

By default Windows will look for all graphic files in 'My Pictures' (and subfolders!) and list them in the Background tab.

[Coach17]

I have always had photos in My Pictures, I currently have thousands in there. Same as last week before this happened.

[Coach17]

Just thought I would update on the status. After a week of not changing anything I have discovered the desktop tab has gone back to the way it was originally. When I clicked on it, it opened up promply and the only files shown are the default windows wallpapers. There are no pictures from "My Pictures".
Almost everyone thought that "My Pictures" was tied into the desktop tab. I knew after many years of changing my desktop wallpaper I had never had that come up and now somehow it has been fixed.