http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/ Get Wallpaper Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:39:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-148 dewcoons Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:49 +0000 http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/#comment-148 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. 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.

]]> http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Fitzy Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:41:57 +0000 http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/#comment-147 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 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

]]> http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-146 smartguy Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:34:10 +0000 http://getwp.net/how-do-i-change-the-xp-wallpaper-for-all-users-on-a-particular-machine/#comment-146 Go to desktop -> right click -> properties -> change your wall paper there for each user. Go to desktop -> right click -> properties -> change your wall paper there for each user.

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