{"id":1078,"date":"2013-08-21T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-08-21T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:58:08","slug":"cant-add-a-picture-location-for-desktop-wallpapers-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2013\/08\/cant-add-a-picture-location-for-desktop-wallpapers-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#039;t Add A &#034;Picture Location&#034; For Desktop Wallpapers in Windows 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/howto\/21462\/how-to-enable-or-disable-the-libraries-feature-in-windows-7\/\">disabled Windows 7&#039;s &#034;Libraries&#034; feature<\/a>, you may have later found that you are unable to add &#034;Picture Locations&#034; for your desktop wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p>You click on &#034;browse&#034; and choose a valid folder, but nothing happens when you click &#034;OK&#034;.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/customization\/117112-cannot-add-picture-locations.html#post1023989\">contrary to some suggestions<\/a>, you don&#039;t have to workaround it by manually copying your desired wallpaper into a default folder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wallpaperconfig.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wallpaperconfig-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Windows 7 wallpaper configuration\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wallpaperconfig-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wallpaperconfig-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wallpaperconfig.png 1081w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fix is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/customization\/129349-cant-add-folders-desktop-wallpaper.html#post2473644\">temporarily re-enable Libraries<\/a> (using the same set of registry hacks I linked to above);<\/li>\n<li>add your picture locations;<\/li>\n<li>disable the Libraries again, if desired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new picture locations will remain even after Libraries have been re-disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you have disabled Windows 7&#039;s &#034;Libraries&#034; feature, and later found that you are unable to add &#034;Picture Locations&#034; for your desktop wallpaper, you don&#039;t have to workaround it by manually copying your desired wallpaper into a default folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[42,12,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}