A stupid question -- do any of the problem files have the same filename (ignoring the path) as an image that's included in the project from which the EXE was built?

Another weird question -- could there be a conflict between a long filename and short filename? Perhaps you can check with "DIR /X" at the command line in the folder(s) in question to view both the lnog and short filenames. A long, long time ago, I ran into this sort of problem on an old Novell fileserver on which the short filename generation was performed by simply truncating the long filename -- this resulted on occasional clashes between long and short filenames (this was later corrected on the fileserver by loading a patch to change the short filename generation to use method similar to what's used in Windows 9x).

>Hello all,
>
>Windows 11 (In case there could be something related to my problem)
>
>I have a folder that contains 36 images. When I use the file explorer and double-click to see the images everything is fine. Meaning that I can see the right image maximized.
>
>In my application I have to show an image in a form. Random(36) will determine which image will be viewed in the form. In the folder each image has a number that will identify it.
>
>The weird thing is that for two images I don't see the right image.
>
>To add to the weird aspect, I have another folder also containing Images. Images that also have a number to identify it.
>
>When I define which image goes where I use the path of the first folder. For the cases of the wrong images being displayed it's like the wrong images were taken from the second folder.
>
>So for example, hoping to make this problem as clear as possible here are the images displayed in my form.
>
>The 2 wrong images are the third and 36th.
>
>
>Folder1\Image1.png
>Folder1\Image2.png
>Folder2\Image3.png (this makes no sense because the path that I specify is with folder1.)
>Folder1\Image4.png
>Folder1\Image5.png
>Folder1\Image6.png
>Folder1\Image7.png
>Folder1\Image8.png
>Folder1\Image9.png
>Folder1\Image10.png
>Folder1\Image11.png
>Folder1\Image12.png
>Folder1\Image13.png
>Folder1\Image14.png
>Folder1\Image15.png
>Folder1\Image16.png
>Folder1\Image17.png
>Folder1\Image18.png
>Folder1\Image19.png
>Folder1\Image20.png
>Folder1\Image21.png
>Folder1\Image22.png
>Folder1\Image23.png
>Folder1\Image24.png
>Folder1\Image25.png
>Folder1\Image2.png
>Folder1\Image26.png
>Folder1\Image27.png
>Folder1\Image28.png
>Folder1\Image29.png
>Folder1\Image30.png
>Folder1\Image31.png
>Folder1\Image32.png
>Folder1\Image33.png
>Folder1\Image34.png
>Folder1\Image35.png
>Folder2\Image36.png (this makes no sense because the path that I specify is with folder1.)
>
>Did you ever see something like that?