We have an annoying little problem, that I'm hoping someone can give me a
quick fix to.

As part of our group policy, all PCs run a little login script that copies
an image to the local machine, and then this is set to be the desktop
wallpaper. However, more often than not, when a PC has finished logging on,
the image is not displayed correctly, as though it hasn’t finished loading.
Usually, only the top section of the image is displayed. This is simply
cured by right clicking, and choosing Refresh, but surely there must be a way
to automate this? Is there a keyboard shortcut we can include in the login
script to refresh?

Or, does anyone know why this may be happening in the first place?

"Neilo" wrote:

> We have an annoying little problem, that I'm hoping someone can give me a
> quick fix to.
>
> As part of our group policy, all PCs run a little login script that copies
> an image to the local machine, and then this is set to be the desktop
> wallpaper. However, more often than not, when a PC has finished logging on,
> the image is not displayed correctly, as though it hasn’t finished loading.
> Usually, only the top section of the image is displayed. This is simply
> cured by right clicking, and choosing Refresh, but surely there must be a way
> to automate this? Is there a keyboard shortcut we can include in the login
> script to refresh?
>

Neilo wrote:
> Or, does anyone know why this may be happening in the first place?
>
> "Neilo" wrote:
>
>> We have an annoying little problem, that I'm hoping someone can give me a
>> quick fix to.
>>
>> As part of our group policy, all PCs run a little login script that copies
>> an image to the local machine, and then this is set to be the desktop
>> wallpaper. However, more often than not, when a PC has finished logging on,
>> the image is not displayed correctly, as though it hasn’t finished loading.
>> Usually, only the top section of the image is displayed. This is simply
>> cured by right clicking, and choosing Refresh, but surely there must be a way
>> to automate this? Is there a keyboard shortcut we can include in the login
>> script to refresh?

Maybe if you assign a filename for the background, then change the
content of the file whenever you want. This might cause the file to be
loaded completely before it's called upon. A late assignment of the
background filename might be causing the incomplete load.. just a
thought.. I have no idea if this will help. But I had a batch file in a
config file years ago, that would rename three images, and always have
"image1.bmp" as the background image. Since the file was reassigned
before Windows loaded, the image was always complete. I probably did
this on a W98 machine.

F5 is an easier way to refresh the screen. You have to be looking at
the Desktop, of course.

--
Joe =o)

RunDll32.exe USER32.DLL,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True

You might want to have a delay before you run it, or you can put it in
the %allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup or the
%userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup so that it runs after the
startup script. If you don't want it in the startup folder you could
run it from the registry Run keys.

Just as easy would be to use the use the registry's RunLogonScriptSync
setting to have the system wait for logon scripts to complete before it
starts Windows Explorer and creates the desktop. The RunLogonScriptSync
can be set manually or by the Run logon scripts synchronously Group
Policy Object.

John

Neilo wrote:
> We have an annoying little problem, that I'm hoping someone can give me a
> quick fix to.
>
> As part of our group policy, all PCs run a little login script that copies
> an image to the local machine, and then this is set to be the desktop
> wallpaper. However, more often than not, when a PC has finished logging on,
> the image is not displayed correctly, as though it hasn’t finished loading.
> Usually, only the top section of the image is displayed. This is simply
> cured by right clicking, and choosing Refresh, but surely there must be a way
> to automate this? Is there a keyboard shortcut we can include in the login
> script to refresh?
>