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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Desktop bitmaps??
Summary: Screen peace?
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.032851.11522@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 03:28:51 GMT
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In article <3440@gmdzi.gmd.de> icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking) writes:
>town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town) writes:
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell Windows to look somewhere other
>>> than in the windows directory to find .bmp files?  I'd like to keep all of
>>> the bitmaps together in a seperate (networked) directory, but it looks like
>>> the user will have to remember the full pathnames when selecting one.
>>Along this same vein, I noticed the other day that when I told windows to use
>>a bitmap file from a different path - IT COPIED THE FILE INTO THE WINDOWS DIR!

I've noticed that screen peace ver 1.2 has a setup option that allows
you to get screen peace to keep changing the bitmap. You can tell it
where the bitmaps are stored, so I *presume* that they can be stored
someplace else.

The entry in win.ini for the bitmap uses a comlete path+filename, so
maybe that will work. I guess that if you had edit win.ini, you
might be able to specify another location for the bitmap.

kartik
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