Re: security/setup questions

From: Jeremy (Nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:11:32 -0500

Thanks William and Torgeir for the information. I will try both those. On
the pc's I have chosen a wallpaper they can't change its the ones I left set
to the default wallpaper. 

-- 
Jeremy Kettelhohn
"William Wang[MSFT]" <v-rxwang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for your posting and thanks for Torgeir's help. Torgeir has
answered
> your first question. For the second question, you can refer to the
> following article:
>
> 327998 You Can Change Desktop Wallpaper Setting After Administrator
Selects
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327998
>
> To resolve this issue, specify an Active Desktop wallpaper setting in
Group
> Policy. To do this, follow these steps:
>
> 1. Click Start, click Run, and then type "gpedit.msc" (without the
> quotation marks).
>
> 2. Under Local Computer Policy, expand User Configuration, expand
> Administrative Templates, expand Desktop, and then click Active Desktop.
>
> 3. Double-click Active Desktop Wallpaper.
>
> 4. On the Setting tab, click Enabled, type the path to the desktop
> wallpaper that you want to use, and then click OK.
> ~~~~~~
>
> Please feel free to let us know if anything is unclear or if you need
> further assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Wang
> Microsoft Online Support Engineer
>
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> >Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:16:31 -0500
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> >I am getting 13 new XP machines.  Is there a way to setup the default
> >settings on XP so that everytime I add a user to a machine that user has
> the
> >defaults I want?   Like starting with XP classic shell, etc...
> >
> >Also using grpedit.msc I have done everything I can to prevent users from
> >changing and installing wallpapers since we have problems with users
> >installing non professional in a public professional environment.   The
way
> >they are getting around this is in explorer right clicking on a jpg or
> >picture and saying set as desktop background.  In gpedit.msc I have set
> >under desktop and under display to not allow active desktop, only allow
> >bitmapped wallpaper, prohibit changes to active desktop.  Is there
another
> >setting or a reg setting I can change to stop this?
> >
> >-- 
> >
> >
> >Jeremy Kettelhohn
> >
> >
> >
>

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