Deleting desktop background totally

[perplexed]

I have a background I put from a photo from paint and don't like it, how do I totally delete the background and take it out of the background list please?

Thanks!

[miller123]

Change the background and delete the source file, probally in My Pictures.

Jack

[sadgoat]

lol i think someone put a naughty picture on their desktop........

haha jk, yeah do what miller said

[perplexed]

too funny lol lol lol lol , in all honesty it was a very dark photo and it made my desktop icons very hard to see, I was going blind lol lol

your too funny, lol lol lol, I barely know how to scan lol lol lol lol lol

Thanks

[perplexed]

I have some old baby photos for my background on my desktop, how do I go in and delete them , I figured out where they are in my photos but when I delete them and go back into display, background, desktop the dates are still there, I guess I put them in background by dates how do I delete them? I just want what came with xp listed in background for now.
Thanks

[Miz]

XP will look in C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\My Documents\My Pictures for wallpapers pictures. It will also look in C:\Windows occasionally.

Make sure the pictures you don't want in the list are deleted from both locations.

[perplexed]

so I just type that in search is that correct?

[Miz]

Open My Computer. Open the C drive. Open Documents and Settings. Open your user account. Open the My Documents folder. Open the My Pictures folder. Find and delete the pictures you want to remove from the desktop background list.

Then go back to the C drive window. Find and open the Windows folder. Find and delete any pictures there that you want removed from the desktop background list (there may not be any but check anyway). Do not delete anything else in the Windows folder.

[perplexed]

thanks there were a few here -My Pictures folder.

there are alot more listed under background in display properties than picture folder But I somehow managed to delete the ones I wanted soooooooooooooo thanks
so much for the help.