Hi,

I'd like to set 'Enable Active Desktop' through our group policy, as we use
jpegs as wallpapers, however if I do this when users first login they get
their homepage displayed on the desktop, which can be annoying, and sometime
confusing for them. So we either have to disable Active Desktop again via GP
or we have to go into display properties and untick 'My Current Home Page'
from the 'Web' tab, which will take quite a while on all our workstations
spreadout over the site.
Is there not a setting in GP that will disable 'My Current Home Page' but
leave active desktop enabled?

Cheers

Ben

On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:45:49 +0100, "Ben Blackmore"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like to set 'Enable Active Desktop' through our group policy, as we use
>jpegs as wallpapers, however if I do this when users first login they get
>their homepage displayed on the desktop, which can be annoying, and sometime
>confusing for them. So we either have to disable Active Desktop again via GP
>or we have to go into display properties and untick 'My Current Home Page'
>from the 'Web' tab, which will take quite a while on all our workstations
>spreadout over the site.
>Is there not a setting in GP that will disable 'My Current Home Page' but
>leave active desktop enabled?
>
>Cheers
>
>Ben
>

Try disabling Active Desktop Wallpaper Group Policy is (User
Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Desktop\Active Desktop

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

Paul,

Thanks for the email, it seems to have worked! I was going to send you an
email, but hotmail went weird, and deleted your email before I could reply!

Ben

Ryan Miller wrote:
> "Jerold Schulman" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:45:49 +0100, "Ben Blackmore"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to set 'Enable Active Desktop' through our group policy,
>>> as we use jpegs as wallpapers, however if I do this when users
>>> first login they get their homepage displayed on the desktop, which
>>> can be annoying, and sometime confusing for them. So we either have
>>> to disable Active Desktop again via GP or we have to go into
>>> display properties and untick 'My Current Home Page' from the 'Web'
>>> tab, which will take quite a while on all our workstations
>>> spreadout over the site.
>>> Is there not a setting in GP that will disable 'My Current Home
>>> Page' but leave active desktop enabled?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>
>> Try disabling Active Desktop Wallpaper Group Policy is (User
>> Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Desktop\Active Desktop
>>
>> Jerold Schulman
>> Windows: General MVP
>> JSI, Inc.
>> http://www.jsiinc.com
>
> I was having the same problem. Now when I disabled the Active
> Desktop, my jpeg wallpaper does not show up. Any suggestions?

Well, convert it to bmp
AFAIK you need to use Active Desctop to view jpeg wallpapers.

Al.