Remove Wallpaper Location history from Personalization in Windows 7

June 26th, 2009 . Filed under: Tips. Tags: ,

When you right click on the Windows 7 desktop and select Personalize, you are presented with window. Now when you click on Desktop Background, in the drop down menu of the Picture locations, you will see a list of the locations from where you may have picked up the wallpapers to display them. 

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The default locations like Windows Desktop Backgrounds, Solid Colors, etc will also be displayed. To remove the list of non-default locations, here is what you can do:

Open regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers\Images

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Now in the RHS, you will, other than “Default”, see some vaues from 0-9. These represent the directory path where images are stored.

To clear an entry from the Wallpaper Location drop down list, right click on the registry value & click Delete.


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