My company had just instituted policies to lock the desktop, set
screensavers, etc. on Win2000 and XP desktops from the domain. Good
so far. Except I have a user who "Set as wallpaper" a picture of her
dog. I need to remove it before someone sees it who shouldn't.

I can log in as me (an administrator) on her computer, use GPEDIT.MSC
to unlock the desktop, then log in as her, and it's still locked. I
made her an administrator on that computer, and I still can't remove
it after logging in. Obviously, it's only on her desktop, so she
needs to be logged in to remove it, and she can't log in without the
policy locking it again.

So . . .
How can I log into the machine only as Administrator and remove it
from her desktop?

Thanks ......

When logged in as administrator, can't you just whack the file
that is used as wallpaper?
I presume it is called "Internet Explorer Wallpaper", but you
should be able to figure out the filename by looking at the .bmp
files in Windows folder too...

HTH



"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My company had just instituted policies to lock the desktop,
set
> screensavers, etc. on Win2000 and XP desktops from the domain.
Good
> so far. Except I have a user who "Set as wallpaper" a picture
of her
> dog. I need to remove it before someone sees it who
shouldn't.
>
> I can log in as me (an administrator) on her computer, use
GPEDIT.MSC
> to unlock the desktop, then log in as her, and it's still
locked. I
> made her an administrator on that computer, and I still can't
remove
> it after logging in. Obviously, it's only on her desktop, so
she
> needs to be logged in to remove it, and she can't log in
without the
> policy locking it again.
>
> So . . .
> How can I log into the machine only as Administrator and
remove it
> from her desktop?
>
> Thanks ......

When you "unlock it" are you *disabling* the policy or are you setting it to
"Not configured" ?

"Not configured" will simply leave the corresponding registry at whatever it
currently is.


--
Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware



"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My company had just instituted policies to lock the desktop, set
> screensavers, etc. on Win2000 and XP desktops from the domain. Good
> so far. Except I have a user who "Set as wallpaper" a picture of her
> dog. I need to remove it before someone sees it who shouldn't.
>
> I can log in as me (an administrator) on her computer, use GPEDIT.MSC
> to unlock the desktop, then log in as her, and it's still locked. I
> made her an administrator on that computer, and I still can't remove
> it after logging in. Obviously, it's only on her desktop, so she
> needs to be logged in to remove it, and she can't log in without the
> policy locking it again.
>
> So . . .
> How can I log into the machine only as Administrator and remove it
> from her desktop?
>
> Thanks ......

Logon under her account and look in HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper and
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Desktop\General\Wallpaper and
BackupWallpaper.

I'm disabling, then when I log in as her again it's re-enabled with
the policy. It didn't even occur to me to make her an administrator
and log in as her and disable it again. Doh!!

Thanks for the responses.

"Colin Nash [MVP]" <cnash-REMOVETHIS-@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> When you "unlock it" are you *disabling* the policy or are you setting it to
> "Not configured" ?
>
> "Not configured" will simply leave the corresponding registry at whatever it
> currently is.
>
>
> --
> Colin Nash
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware
>

Odd. I made her an administrator on the computer, logged in as her,
disabled "Disable Display in Control Panel" and "Disable Changing
Wallpaper" in GPEDIT.MSC, and I still couldn't get to the display
properties.

Colin's idea worked though. I searched the BMPs and found an Internet
Wallpaper.BMP, deleted it, and all is well.

thanks again to all

(E-Mail Removed) (Frank) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I'm disabling, then when I log in as her again it's re-enabled with
> the policy. It didn't even occur to me to make her an administrator
> and log in as her and disable it again. Doh!!
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> "Colin Nash [MVP]" <cnash-REMOVETHIS-@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> > When you "unlock it" are you *disabling* the policy or are you setting it to
> > "Not configured" ?
> >
> > "Not configured" will simply leave the corresponding registry at whatever it
> > currently is.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Colin Nash
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware
> >