How do I change the XP wallpaper for all users on a particular machine?

Question

On a windows XP machine we have in the office, how can I change the default windows wallpaper so that it displays a corporate background by default instead of the windows bliss picture?

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Go to desktop -> right click -> properties -> change your wall paper there for each user.

Answer 2

First produce a suitable sized picture for your Corporate desktop background. Save it as a jpg. (Doesn't need to be a bmp picture).

Click START > Help & Support Center
Type into Search box "change wallpaper"
Choose from the results "Use a picture as a desktop background" (or one of the other choices as appropriate).

It will then reveal the simple process of getting it to display your chosen picture as a background (i.e. as the "desktop").

However in most cases users are allowed to set their own preferences when they log in, so that process only changes it for that person who logged in. You would have to do the same for each person logging in.

Having done that, there is a way to prevent people changing it again by modifying the regisrty. Do NOT modify the registry if you don't know what you are doing and in any case you need to back it up first.

I think the following parameter in the registry prevents anyone changing the desktop.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]
"SecureDesktop"=dword:00000001

Answer 3

Use the MMC to set a policy restricting the background.

start > run > type in: mmc

File > Add snapin > Group Policy Object Editor

User Configuration >Admin Templates > Control Panel > Display

Options there to set a theme and restrict the changing of the background.