{"id":1019,"date":"2009-11-24T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/11\/disable-wallpaper-change-in-windows-7\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:38:26","slug":"disable-wallpaper-change-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/11\/disable-wallpaper-change-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Wallpaper Change in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Desktop wallpaper can be restricted and can be set against any change for a wallpaper. Often Administrators in an organization feels their need to put their Organization wallpaper on their computer which is fixed and can not be changed by any other user on that computer. This can be done easily using a Group policy editor setting. Although the same can be done with Registry,Third party Software. This setting lets you specify the wallpaper on users&#8217; desktops and prevents users from changing the image or its presentation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gpe-1.jpg\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"gpe_1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gpe_1\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gpe-1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"578\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type <strong>gpedit.msc<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Local Computer policy &gt; User Configuration &gt; Administrative Templates &gt; Desktop<\/strong> in left hand side pane.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Desktop Wallpaper <\/strong>setting from right side pane.<\/li>\n<li>Open it and enable it .<\/li>\n<li>To use this setting, type the fully qualified path and name of the file that stores the wallpaper image. You can type a local path, such as C:\\Windows\\web\\wallpaper\\home.jpg . Also this setting specify that the wallpaper image be centered, tiled, or stretched.<\/li>\n<li>Press OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gpe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"gpe_2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gpe_2\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gpe-2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: This setting does not apply to remote desktop server sessions. Also Log off or restart is required to make the changes affect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Desktop wallpaper can be restricted and can be set against any change for a wallpaper. Often Administrators in an organization feels their need to put their Organization wallpaper on their computer which is fixed and can not be changed by any other user on that computer. This can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-trix","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}