This is normal. You'll have to move them, either Out of the My Pictures
folder, or into the Sample Pictures folder (if you haven't deleted it). [All
other sub-folders' pictures appear as possibilities for Backgrounds, but not
those in Sample Pic's.]

"Abs" wrote:

> All the images in the 'My Pictures' folder including sub folders are showing
> up as desktop backgrounds even though I never used them for it before. I want
> to know if there is some way to remove them from the options list without
> deleting them.