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Windows Server Forum / Windows Server 2003 / Security / June 2005Changing wallpaper on desktops
Hello All, I have a public environment and I am experiencing users being able to change the desktop wallpaper although I have a GPO set to restrict this action. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I am getting the Mozilla firefox image (stretched) often on my desktops. I am wondering how the users are circumventing the GPOs in order to make chages or is it getting modified via some script. Any insight would be much appreciated. TIA, Altria I've seen this happening where users were able to right-click an image in a webbrowser and choose "set as wallpaper". This worked regardless of the GPO. HTH Dajo Altria schreef: > Hello All, > I have a public environment and I am experiencing users being able to change [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > TIA, > Altria Hello Dajo, Thanks for your reply..... Your answer led me to look deeper into this issue. The right click (to set as background) is actually disabled in IE as well as Explorer but users are still able to save files in a public folder. Once they save the images there they can open the viewer directly in Microsoft Picture and Fax viewer. Now at this point they are able to set image as background. Therefore, I now have two options, disable MS fax/pic viewer or find way to change the default picture editor (ie Paint.). I am hoping I can gather some expertise here!!! Also i hope this helps other people who may be plagued with this issue!! TIA, Altria thanks again dajo!! > I've seen this happening where users were able to right-click an image in > a webbrowser and choose "set as wallpaper". This worked regardless of the [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> TIA, >> Altria At my old college they used a policy setting that disabled the windows desktop wallpaper altogether; ill look into it asap, see if i can dig anything up. Darren. > Hello Dajo, > Thanks for your reply..... [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >> TIA, > >> Altria OK i found this; its an edited reg file with details that should sort it! hope so anyway :) These settings were working on XP with no SP, SP1 and SP2 and will probably work with win2000 machines too. ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Active Desktop] "NoChangingWallPaper"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System ] "NoDispBackgroundPage"=dword:00000001 "NoDispSettingsPage"=dword:00000001 "WallpaperStyle"="0" ------------------------------------------------------------ The NoDisp Parts disable the specific tabs on the desktop properites menu Hope this helps, Darren. > At my old college they used a policy setting that disabled the windows > desktop wallpaper altogether; ill look into it asap, see if i can dig [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > >> TIA, > > >> Altria |
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