Where is the desktop picture stored?

[godfire]

I ask because the picture which I set it from is now corrupt or something, and I fear that if I change my desktop wallpaper (which I would like to) I may just lose that picture. Since there is obviously a good copy of this picture somewhere on my computer, can someone tell me where it is?

 

[Basilisk]

Mentioning the OS might not hurt !

In Win98se: you can select the desktop background from any *.bmp under c:\Windows .

There is no "other copy" as far as I know: the Registry just points to the image. So, if it's corrupted, that's that unless you have another image around. Of course, if you used an M$ provided image, you can restore that... but you didn't indicate where your background originated.

To add a new candidate image for a background, just create it as a BMP, store it under \Windows, and use "browse" under Properties -> background .

Of course, you may not be talking about Win98se, but GIGO !!

 

[Mitzi]

Windows 2000/XP....

c:\WinPath\Web\Wallpaper

Right click on the desktop, select properties and all image files stored nin the above directory should appear in the drop-down wallpaper box.

Edit: If you use the 'Set as wallpaper' function provided by some apps you will indeed overwrite your old wallpaper...go into the above directory...find the file relating to your current wallpaper and rename it to something else, if you ever want to change back to it use the method above.

 

[godfire]

Hey,

I'm using Windows XP, and it's one of my own pictures. It wasn't in the directory you specified. I always assumed that it just used the picture at its location, but I can't open that picture anymore.

 

[RVN]

Why don't you do a search for it by name or date or file type?

 

[godfire]

Tried that, didn't come up with anything. I'm not even sure if Windows actually keeps a "separate copy" of the file somewhere or if something really weird is just happening to my computer