Set Wallpaper on Mandatory Profile

[ryhackl]

Greetings!

I've successfully set up mandatory profiles on my Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP network (with W2K Server). Users who log on have the same printer, wallpaper, Internet homepage, Internet Favorites, etc...

When I "test" to see if a user can change the background/wallpaper, the profile (correctly) says "you cannot make changes to the file" when I log off (since I've given it "Read" security permissions only).

However, when I log back on, the wallpaper/background still appears for the specific computer the user was on . When I log on to a different computer with the same/different user information, I get the original wallpaper/background.

Any suggestions to help? Is this a time where I should use a Group Policy (if so, what)?

Thanks for any help and/or suggestions...

Ryan

 

[jthiessen]

not sure I understand what you mean. This is a wallpaper policy so all users have the same wallpaper, right? so it is changing to what? Do you mean that it resets to the wallpaper before the policy was implemented?

 

[ryhackl]

... when the user changes the background, it shows up on the next logon...

I've changed the Group Policy settings, so now users can't change wallpaper anymore. This should work for our needs.

But what have others done to solve the problem of users changing wallpapers?

 

[jthiessen]

disable the display features

 

[raburns]

Won't they be able to change it using internet explorer? If you right click on a picture in internet explorer, there is a Set as Background option.

 

[jthiessen]

Yes, there is, but if you are using Win2k GPO's you can disable that feature. Go to your MMC GPO and look in user config> admin templates> control panel > display and disable changing wallpaper.