How can I save the desktop wallpapers I've chosen from web

Put them here, that's where usually Windows walls are, too
C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
You can even organize them by creating different Sub directories
If you don't want to go through to search those directories from every browser, just save to Desktop and move the pics from there

But there is a second way: if you use a theme pack you can also put the pics in

C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\<Themename>\DesktopBackground

-DG

Well you could always just make your own folder somewhere and specify the pics there as Desktops

i can just drag pictures from my browser right onto my desktop - then i right-click it and 'set as desktop background' - it will save itself, and i can then delete it from my desktop.

i've just tried it by dragging sledge's signature to my desktop and rightclicking - warning: it looks awful as a wallpaper!



i've found the picture saved in 'c:\users\[yourname]\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\themes' phew.

note that you have to have 'show hidden files' enabled in windows explorer.

oh, and welcome to sevenforums, molokaicreeper :)

*edit* on second thoughts, this doesn't really answer your question. maybe i should delete this post?

no, i'll keep it, because maybe it's interestingly unusual to use somebody's signature as a wallpaper. )

Wow Mickey, I never thought of doing it that way. If ya tile the sig it looks better.

Just to add, when using wallpapers try to download the original wallpaper and put it into a folder, then do what SledgeDG says.

My experience with windows 7 is if you right click a wallpaper from the web and use the 'set as desktop background' from the right click menu, windows 7 re-samples it to jpeg, even if it is a jpeg, this degrades the quality of the image.

e.g. If you download one of the carbon wallpapers from here Gfx-effects | Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers & Tutorials using the 'set as desktop background' feature then look at the carbon, its all messed up, However if you download and put it into a folder then use that folder as SledgeDG suggests the wallpaper is clean and crisp!!

Try it you will see what I mean

You could make a symbolic link.

If you direct your wallpaper downloads to %userprofile%\downloads\pics for example, then you could do something like this:

from cmd prompt

mklink /D /J %windir%\web\wallpaper\pics %userprofile%\downloads\pics



Edit - ooops forgot the /J