How to prevent user from changing wallpaper in XP
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Hi Can anybody tell me how can I - as a system adminsitrator - prevent the limited users from changing wallpaper in windows XP without turning on active desktop. Since it has severe negative impact on performance. Thanks.
reman
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Hi Can anybody tell me how can I - as a system adminsitrator - prevent the limited users from changing wallpaper in windows XP without turning on active desktop. Since it has severe negative impact on performance. Thanks.
reman
Check in the group policy settings. I'm pretty sure there are policy settings that control the desktop background, icon placement, etc. but I don't know what they are off-hand.
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Hi Can anybody tell me how can I - as a system adminsitrator - prevent the limited users from changing wallpaper in windows XP without turning on active desktop. Since it has severe negative impact on performance. Thanks.
reman
Open Active Directory Users and Computers. In the appropriate OU create a new Group Policy named after the purpose. If you don't have an appropriate OU, create one. Making policies that affect everything is usually bad practice as far as I'm concerned. Edit the new policy. Under 'User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Control Panel - Display' you can 'Prevent Changing Wall Paper'. When you're at it you can also 'Hide the Desktop Tab'. Under 'User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Desktop - Active Desktop' you can also 'Disable Active Desktop' if performance is an issue.