[question] Changing peoples wallpaper remotely

ScooBySnaCk

Tribalwar Overlord

Veteran XX

• Dec 30, 2004

• #1

Can this be done with policy edit or whatever? In relation to my previous thread about Texas Tech and Cal , Im going to change the cal fans wallpaper to Texas Tech etc etc.

Help me Obiwan, you are my only hope.


Yes Im admin and they are Xp machines in an AD environment.

 

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DoctoR WanG

Veteran X

• Dec 30, 2004

• #2

You could sub7 your works network. That would be silly.

 

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BadMoFo

Contributor

Veteran XX

• Dec 30, 2004

• #3

check in the group policy editor scrooby

there should be a display setting in there

 

ScooBySnaCk

Tribalwar Overlord

Veteran XX

• Dec 30, 2004

• #4

BadMoFo said:

check in the group policy editor scrooby

there should be a display setting in there

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yeah but I dont want to change everyones..just a couple of machines.

 

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Redz15

Veteran XV

• Dec 30, 2004

• #5

just change everyones to your favorite football team

 

Killjoy

Veteran XX

• Dec 30, 2004

• #6

If its AD you can set the GPO to execute only for a set group of people.

If not an AD enviornment then you can use a login script to copy down a bmp and then push a reg file or using vbscript set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Wallpaper

It is a string so give it an absolute path value

 

Killjoy

Veteran XX

• Dec 30, 2004

• #7

If its just as a joke then remote regedit the user and change that key.

For non Active Desktop systems then the path to background will be

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper