25th March 2002

People are jealous of my desktop wallpaper. I try to change it every day, so boredom always stays at bay. A Gnomie known as "Josh" was frustrated with where Windows was looking for his Background images. By default, it may look in your Windows folder or your Web folder. Got 'em elsewhere? Let Windows know. Open your Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion. There, you should find the WallPaperDir entry. Feel free to change it! One helpful string is %USERPROFILE% - which opens up the current user's "Documents and Settings" folder in Windows 2000 or XP. In other versions of Windows, the My Documents \ My Pictures folder will be found elsewhere. Wherever you have your favorite Wallpaper images stored is where you should set this value. If you're looking for new and exciting (suitable) Wallpaper images, look no further than our (current) daily Digital Media newsletter. Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but it's truly a feature that I've come to look forward to every weekday. Might as well let us do the work for you!