2nd Post: How to specify a wallpape w/o Active Desktop

[Dave Niemeyer]

2nd Post, no answer before:

The Active Desktop method of specifying a wallpaper in GP won't work for us
since we check "hide all items on desktop." The affected users get NO
wallpaper unless we uncheck "hide all items," but I need to hide all the
icons on the desktop..

Is there any way to specify a wallpaper W/O Active Desktop, any policy, any
template out there that would do that?

Or is there any way to allow the active desktop but still hide ALL the icons
and get the wallpaper to work?

I know I can do it at the local machine and force a default user profile
that all new users inherit at each machine, but I need more than that
because the wallpaper will spell out for us who's logged in, what type of
user. So, different OU's get different wallpapers (and we desire different
background colors or color schemes as well if at all possible.)

Thanks in advance.

Dave Niemeyer

 

[Dave Niemeyer]

Me again: Hey, can GP be used to accomplish this reg data:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpapaper ???

and other related info in there????

I seem to get the idea that GP is basically for the purpose of putting in
data into the "policies" area of the registry, and the area I'm talking
about above is something that the OLD SYSTEM policies could address, but
permanent of course until the user got another policy. I can live with the
permanency or tattooing with this key if I can find a way for GP to do it
since we're now on AD and no system policies any more.

Dave Niemeyer

 

[Buz [MSFT]]

Dave I would try to modify the permissions on the key you mentioned so
system and authenticated users (or everyone) only have read access.

Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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