Wallpaper Changing prevention


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Ok... so i thought i had this system locked down. But i now realize that it's still possible to change to change it by a simple thing i overlooked :blush: :p . In the "My Pictures" folder you can highlight/select a picture and on the left under picture task you can just click "Set picture as background"

Is there anyway to remove that one option? I already locked down the control panel and 99% of all changes via Group Policy but that shortcut does play nice with the rules.

I guess the only other option is to remove the my pictures folder (don't ask why i even have one cuz it's not needed on these machines)

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wow...that sounds like a registry entry, but that one might be deep in there. I'm not sure what to change for that. It's the same thing for IE too right? If you see a picture you can right click and say set as background. Did you get that one blocked?

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wow...that sounds like a registry entry, but that one might be deep in there. I'm not sure what to change for that. It's the same thing for IE too right? If you see a picture you can right click and say set as background. Did you get that one blocked?

This is one restriction I have never been able to figure out, BUT if you make them have a Mandatory profile (rename ntuser.dat to ntuser.man) none of their settings get saved, so each time they boot, they get the default settings again.

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Here is one way around it.

Change the rights on "Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp".

A Group Policy possibility:

User Configuration

> Administrative Templates

> Control Panel

> Display

> Disable Changing wallpaper

Edited by Joe User 99
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the group policy is what we are already talking about. but the rights on Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp sounds like a good idea.

...but theres also the problem of selecting "set as wallpaper" in paint.

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