04 March 2008 Categorized under Windows

Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
ExplorerWallpaperMRU

All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers.

Wallpaper history binary value in registry

The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but I think this i information about the dimensions and style of the image.


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