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Wallpaper location
Name: Martyn999 Date: October 24, 2005 at 13:02:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: Athlon64 3500+ / 1GB
Comment:
Where is the wallpaper file saved in XP? I set it to a photograph which I no longer have on my computer, but obviously Windows makes a copy of it somewhere. I would like to find this file so that if I change my wallpaper in future I can always change it back to this... (and no, I do not have any copies of this file)
Name: Tufenuf Date: October 24, 2005 at 13:08:43 Pacific
Reply:
Should be in C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper (for Windows XP).
Tufenuf
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Response Number 2
Name: Martyn999 Date: October 24, 2005 at 13:16:50 Pacific
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It isn't, I already looked in there. That only contains the default wallpapers, not my custom one. It has to be somewhere as it gets reloaded each time I boot...
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Response Number 3
Name: Tufenuf Date: October 24, 2005 at 13:21:45 Pacific
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Windows also stores your personal pictures for wallpaper in the "My Pictures" folder.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: October 24, 2005 at 13:23:18 Pacific
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Earlier this month someone came here to ask us the SAME question. Have you read that one before you posted this thread?
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