Wallpaper - Non Active Desktop settings

[Nikhil Bendre]

Hi,

Currently we have 250 desktops and 2 DC. 60 PC are WinXP and rest win2000
sp3. 1 DC with Win2000 sp2 and other with sp3. I have currently setup group
policy to apply restrcitions for applications and desktop control.
Active Desktop has been disabled on all pcs.

Problem :
I want to implement a domain wide policy to standardize on wallpaper. since
active desktop is disabled jpg and gif files cannot be applied until it is
enabled. I would like to use bmp file as wallpaper as general wallpaper. The
wallpaper registry which can be utilize in this case is

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\WINNT\\win2000.bmp"
"WallpaperStyle"="2

how do i implement this from group policy cause i do not see any options or
help to set this registry key?

Any help would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

You can either use a VBS script to manipulate the registry, or do what I
would do in this situation.

Export the settings to a .reg file that can be imported on a client.

Under User Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts (Logon/Logoff) |
Logon, click the "show files" button and copy the .reg file in, for example
as "myfile.reg".

Then, add a script with "regedit" as the command and "/s %~dp0myfile.reg" as
the parameter.

I would use this solution for a network such as yours where replication of
the file between DCs will not be a problem.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Nikhil Bendre]

Hi,

Thanks for the response

regedit.exe is also listed as restricted application in group policy ..
"dont run specific application"
so will using logon script to merge the reg by /s command will be allowed or
popup "restriction on the computer do not allows you to run the
application..." msg

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

You can either use a VBS script to manipulate the registry, or do what I
would do in this situation.

Export the settings to a .reg file that can be imported on a client.

Under User Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts (Logon/Logoff) |
Logon, click the "show files" button and copy the .reg file in, for example
as "myfile.reg".

Then, add a script with "regedit" as the command and "/s %~dp0myfile.reg" as
the parameter.

I would use this solution for a network such as yours where replication of
the file between DCs will not be a problem.

Hope this helps

Oli

Hi,

Currently we have 250 desktops and 2 DC. 60 PC are WinXP and rest win2000
sp3. 1 DC with Win2000 sp2 and other with sp3. I have currently setup
group
policy to apply restrcitions for applications and desktop control.
Active Desktop has been disabled on all pcs.

Problem :
I want to implement a domain wide policy to standardize on wallpaper.
since
active desktop is disabled jpg and gif files cannot be applied until it is
enabled. I would like to use bmp file as wallpaper as general wallpaper.
The
wallpaper registry which can be utilize in this case is

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\WINNT\\win2000.bmp"
"WallpaperStyle"="2

how do i implement this from group policy cause i do not see any options
or
help to set this registry key?

Any help would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

I haven't tested this, but I strongly suspect it will be blocked by the
policy, as the command would run under the context of the user.

You could also try this vbscript, borrowed from Torgeir Bakken (Norwegian
God of scripting). If should work for Windows 2000 and XP, according to
Torgeir.


Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

sWinDir = oFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0)
sWallPaper = sWinDir & "\Coffee Bean.bmp"

' update in registry
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper", sWallPaper

' let the system know about the change
oShell.Run _
"%windir%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters",
_
1, True


Cheers

Oli

Hi,

Thanks for the response

regedit.exe is also listed as restricted application in group policy ..
"dont run specific application"
so will using logon script to merge the reg by /s command will be allowed
or
popup "restriction on the computer do not allows you to run the
application..." msg

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

You can either use a VBS script to manipulate the registry, or do what I
would do in this situation.

Export the settings to a .reg file that can be imported on a client.

Under User Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts (Logon/Logoff) |
Logon, click the "show files" button and copy the .reg file in, for example
as "myfile.reg".

Then, add a script with "regedit" as the command and "/s %~dp0myfile.reg" as
the parameter.

I would use this solution for a network such as yours where replication
of
the file between DCs will not be a problem.

Hope this helps

Oli

Hi,

Currently we have 250 desktops and 2 DC. 60 PC are WinXP and rest win2000
sp3. 1 DC with Win2000 sp2 and other with sp3. I have currently setup
group
policy to apply restrcitions for applications and desktop control.
Active Desktop has been disabled on all pcs.

Problem :
I want to implement a domain wide policy to standardize on wallpaper.
since
active desktop is disabled jpg and gif files cannot be applied until it is
enabled. I would like to use bmp file as wallpaper as general
wallpaper.
The
wallpaper registry which can be utilize in this case is

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\WINNT\\win2000.bmp"
"WallpaperStyle"="2

how do i implement this from group policy cause i do not see any
options
or
help to set this registry key?

Any help would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

 

[Nikhil Bendre]

Thanks for update.

will give it a try....

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

I haven't tested this, but I strongly suspect it will be blocked by the
policy, as the command would run under the context of the user.

You could also try this vbscript, borrowed from Torgeir Bakken (Norwegian
God of scripting). If should work for Windows 2000 and XP, according to
Torgeir.


Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

sWinDir = oFSO.GetSpecialFolder(0)
sWallPaper = sWinDir & "\Coffee Bean.bmp"

' update in registry
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper", sWallPaper

' let the system know about the change
oShell.Run _
"%windir%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters",
_
1, True


Cheers

Oli

Hi,

Thanks for the response

regedit.exe is also listed as restricted application in group policy ..
"dont run specific application"
so will using logon script to merge the reg by /s command will be allowed
or
popup "restriction on the computer do not allows you to run the
application..." msg

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre

You can either use a VBS script to manipulate the registry, or do what I
would do in this situation.

Export the settings to a .reg file that can be imported on a client.

Under User Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts (Logon/Logoff) |
Logon, click the "show files" button and copy the .reg file in, for example
as "myfile.reg".

Then, add a script with "regedit" as the command and "/s

%~dp0myfile.reg"
as

the parameter.

I would use this solution for a network such as yours where replication
of
the file between DCs will not be a problem.

Hope this helps

Oli



Hi,

Currently we have 250 desktops and 2 DC. 60 PC are WinXP and rest win2000
sp3. 1 DC with Win2000 sp2 and other with sp3. I have currently setup
group
policy to apply restrcitions for applications and desktop control.
Active Desktop has been disabled on all pcs.

Problem :
I want to implement a domain wide policy to standardize on wallpaper.
since
active desktop is disabled jpg and gif files cannot be applied until

it
is

enabled. I would like to use bmp file as wallpaper as general
wallpaper.
The
wallpaper registry which can be utilize in this case is

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\WINNT\\win2000.bmp"
"WallpaperStyle"="2

how do i implement this from group policy cause i do not see any
options
or
help to set this registry key?

Any help would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre