locking down the desktop background image

[Walt.Lessun]

I am a tired and overworked library director. At our college, we have
some very creative students who enjoy setting interesting images as
"background" or "wallpaper." While I admire the effort, I'd prefer a
more stable and sometimes less shocking image for our screens.
Microsoft has some instructions which lose me at the path typing
stage. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327998
Help if you have time.

 

[Malke]

I am a tired and overworked library director. At our college, we have
some very creative students who enjoy setting interesting images as
"background" or "wallpaper." While I admire the effort, I'd prefer a
more stable and sometimes less shocking image for our screens.
Microsoft has some instructions which lose me at the path typing
stage. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327998
Help if you have time.

Are these computers members of a domain or just a Workgroup? How many
computers running what version of XP?

Malke

 

[mikeyhsd]

the instructions supplied there seem really simple. to me anyway.

you might ask someone from your IT department to help.



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I am a tired and overworked library director. At our college, we have
some very creative students who enjoy setting interesting images as
"background" or "wallpaper." While I admire the effort, I'd prefer a
more stable and sometimes less shocking image for our screens.
Microsoft has some instructions which lose me at the path typing
stage. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327998
Help if you have time.

 

[Mark]

I didn't try it, but it looks like these procedures allow you to set the
location of the wallpaper to something other than the WINDOWS directory..
If you are getting lost at step 4, where the say "type the path to the
desktop wallpaper that you want to use", all they are saying is to enter the
path to some other directory where you want to put the picture you want to
use, perhaps something like "C:/control/image.jpg", something other than the
windows directory.