BgInfo : BGInfo Wallpaper folder quirkiness

Author: rdege
Subject: BGInfo Wallpaper folder quirkiness
Posted: 12 February 2018 at 7:45pm

I am experiencing a problem/issue with bginfo locating the wallpaper image.  Per our AD/GPO admin, the company  workstations use a Desktop wallpaper that is located in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds.  However, bginfo is unable to navigate to that subfolder, even though it's accessible to All Users.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1) Open BGInfo
2) Click Background button
3) Select Use these settings and Wallpaper position as stretch
4) Click the ... button for Wallpaper Bitmap.  When you navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\oobe, the only two items that are visible is the en-US folder and the background.bmp file.

If I use Windows Explorer, I am able to see the info folder, and cd into it (see attached image).  Finally, the ultimate in quirkiness.  If I manually copy the company wallpaper into the C:\Windows\System32\oobe folder, the file will not be displayed when browsing for it via bginfo.  The only two items that bginfo will display in the oobe folder are en-US and background.bmp.  It will not display any sub-folders, or custom image files that I put into the oobe folder.

I must be missing something.  what gives?