Re: Need to block permission to change desktop background

1.Click Start > Run > type GPEDIT.MSC and press Enter.

2. Expand to User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Control Panel - Display.

3. On the right-side pane double-click the entry "Prevent Changing Wallpaper"

4.Set the value "Enable" (If you enable this setting, the Desktop tab still appears, but all options on the tab are disabled.)

5.Click OK/Apply.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]


yetanothereader wrote:

Hello and thank you for your help in advance! I am a grade school teacher needing to block the option of changing the desktop background on our school's lab computers. They are running Win XP (two have XP Pro). Try as I might, images that really don't belong in my Kindergarten class keep being left by older students...please help if you can. Thanks!
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