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Why wouldn't you know that? It's a set of preloaded stock photos, it's always gonna be the same number.

• consp 6d ago
  At compile time of when the pr department decided to change it?
• herywort 6d ago
  > As a final safety check, the code stops after sampling 100 pictures. This avoids pathological behavior if somebody puts a million files in the Default Pictures directory
• bombcar 6d ago
  It’s a directory. You could add pictures to it, and we did in our image layout (mainly for fun, but they wanted the logo as one).
• elgertam 6d ago
  On initial install, sure. But user accounts can also be created at arbitrary times. The user may have changed the set of photos in the intervening time and might even be editing the directory during profile creation.
  • throwaway219450 6d ago
    I thought the same thing, and then wondered if this must be an enterprise problem, because what home user adds loads of icons - so many that IO becomes a concern - and also wants them to be randomly assigned to other family members? But then it occurred to me that XP was of an era when you would absolutely spend an afternoon downloading some megapack of 10000 cool user icons.