Re: Dang! Now how do I remove her wallpaper?

From: Colin Nash [MVP] (cnash-REMOVETHIS-_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:01:30 -0500

When you "unlock it" are you *disabling* the policy or are you setting it to
"Not configured" ?

"Not configured" will simply leave the corresponding registry at whatever it
currently is. 

-- 
Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware
"Frank" <frank062547@excite.com> wrote in message
news:64680c7f.0402111258.4bc03a4@posting.google.com...
> My company had just instituted policies to lock the desktop, set
> screensavers, etc. on Win2000 and XP desktops from the domain.  Good
> so far.  Except I have a user who "Set as wallpaper" a picture of her
> dog.  I need to remove it before someone sees it who shouldn't.
>
> I can log in as me (an administrator) on her computer, use GPEDIT.MSC
> to unlock the desktop, then log in as her, and it's still locked.  I
> made her an administrator on that computer, and I still can't remove
> it after logging in.  Obviously, it's only on her desktop, so she
> needs to be logged in to remove it, and she can't log in without the
> policy locking it again.
>
> So . . .
> How can I log into the machine only as Administrator and remove it
> from her desktop?
>
> Thanks ......

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Non admin users cant do things they need to do
    ... can set the time then they can fake out system event logs by changing ... Double-click on the file to add data to the registry ... right you can do it through a local security policy. ... not an administrator. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
  • Re: Non admin users cant do things they need to do
    ... You may want to check out this policy for the default and created users on your runtime: ... can set the time then they can fake out system event logs by changing ... Double-click on the file to add data to the registry ... not an administrator. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
  • Re: User rights in XPe on HP t5700 terminal - problem
    ... registry, but I thought that there is also normal mmc snap-in available ... > much any policy can be set/modified through registry. ... >> I have re-logged as Administrator and I saw that the user is in the ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
  • Re: XP logs out immediately after loggin in!!
    ... None-the-less, I find Policy ... the administrator won't allow userinint.exe to run. ... I can also find this policy in the registry, ... simply delete the policy folder? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Must all users be administrators?
    ... The familiar look of the AD objects tree you see in Group Policy Editor is ... This seems modestly confusing to an SBS Administrator because there's very ... those rights happen to be nearly unlimited. ... sit a workstation logged on as the Local Administrator, by default, there ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)