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September 27, 2002 at 12:28 AM
dolanjs

Reg Edit For setting the Background

by dolanjs . Updated 23 years, 9 months ago

I used a reg edit that was suppose to set the wallpaper (that had the company logo and each computer’s name boldly across it) for every user. But it only worked for the user that we were logged in as when we made the reg edit. I assume that is because it the Reg edit is under the root key HKEY Current Users. But I have seen it were it worked no matter who logged on. Below is the Reg Edit I used from RegEdit.com

These settings allow you to specify the background wallpaper and display style. When this setting is defined users can not choose an alternative background image:

Open your registry and find the key below.

To specify the wallpaper create a new string value called “Wallpaper” and set it to the full path and filename of the image.

Additionally, to specify the display style, create a new string value called “WallpaperStyle” and set it to either “0”, “1” or “2” according to the list below.

0 – Centered (Default)
1 – Tiled
2 – Stretched
You may need to restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
Wallpaper REG_SZ C:\Windows\Logo.bmp
WallpaperStyle REG_SZ 2

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\…

Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
System]
Value Name: Wallpaper, WallpaperStyle
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
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If anyone knows how toset it up so no matter who logs on it keep the same background and does not allow the user to change it through the properties page it would be appreciated

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