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How To: Change Default Wallpaper Directory In Desktop Properties In Windows XP

e can easily change our desktop wallpaper by right-clicking on desktop, click “Properties, open “Desktop” tab, pick one of the provided wallpapers within the list and hit the apply button.

However, when we want to change the desktop wallpaper with another one that is located within another folder, you’ll have to click the browse button to go to the folder and pick the wallpaper.

If you keep your favorite wallpapers in a separate folder and most of the time you rotate the wallpapers on the desktop, why don’t you just make the folder to be your default wallpaper directory?

In this way, you don’t need to click the browse button every time you want to change the desktop wallpaper from Deskop Properties window.

Here I'll show you a way to change the default wallpaper directory in Desktop Properties, so that whenever you'll open it, it'll show the wallpapers present in your desired folder.

How to:

- Go to START->RUN-> Type ‘regedit’ and press ENTER.

- Then navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

- Now in the right pane, you'll see a string value "WallPaperDir".

- Click on "WallPaperDir" and change the default value to your desired wallpaper directory path.

- Suppose your wallpapers are stored in "D:\Wallpapers" directory, then set the value to "C:\Wallpapers".

- Exit registry editor and open Desktop Properties again. Now it'll show all wallpapers present in the folder which you set in registry.