How Do I Change The Xp Wallpaper For All Users On A Particular Machine?

June 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,

  1. smartguy
    June 19th, 2009 at 15:34
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    Go to desktop -> right click -> properties -> change your wall paper there for each user.

  2. Fitzy
    June 19th, 2009 at 17:41
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    First produce a suitable sized picture for your Corporate desktop background. Save it as a jpg. (Doesn’t need to be a bmp picture).
    Click START > Help & Support Center
    Type into Search box “change wallpaper”
    Choose from the results “Use a picture as a desktop background” (or one of the other choices as appropriate).
    It will then reveal the simple process of getting it to display your chosen picture as a background (i.e. as the “desktop”).
    However in most cases users are allowed to set their own preferences when they log in, so that process only changes it for that person who logged in. You would have to do the same for each person logging in.
    Having done that, there is a way to prevent people changing it again by modifying the regisrty. Do NOT modify the registry if you don’t know what you are doing and in any case you need to back it up first.
    I think the following parameter in the registry prevents anyone changing the desktop.
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft... NTCurrentVersionWindows]
    “SecureDesktop”=dword:00000001

  3. dewcoons
    June 19th, 2009 at 18:30
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    Use the MMC to set a policy restricting the background.
    start > run > type in: mmc
    File > Add snapin > Group Policy Object Editor
    User Configuration >Admin Templates > Control Panel > Display
    Options there to set a theme and restrict the changing of the background.

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