Change windows desktop background registry

Tuesday, February 14, AM. Hi, Was your issue resolved? Friday, February 24, AM. This seems a bit stupid. Why would Microsoft limit this to only Enterprise versions? Why not Pro? Thursday, July 13, AM. Friday, July 21, PM. Why isn't the font mono-spaced for code? Looks like it's a Build issue.

Edited by pkendall Friday, March 9, PM. Friday, March 9, PM. Sunday, April 22, AM. Proposed as answer by emarchewka Friday, August 10, PM. Friday, August 10, PM. Guys What about adding slideshow for the screenlock how would i do that. Instead of image path add folder path? This is awsome Thanks a lot Regards. As a rule, it is important for large businesses that require all employees using the same corporate desktop background image on all computers.

This image file can be pre-copied to all computers, but it is more convenient if the clients take the jpeg file automatically from the shared network folder. We have chosen the second variant for our distributed network since the SYSVOL contents are automatically replicated between all DCs and allow reducing WAN traffic between the branch offices when the clients are getting the image file. Create a new policy and assign it to the necessary OU with the users in our case, we want the policy to be applied to all domain computers and servers, so we just edit the Default Domain Policy.

Switch to the policy Edit mode. Then enable the Desktop Wallpaper policy. In the policy settings, specify the UNC path to the jpeg image file and select Fill as a wallpaper style. If Group Policy settings are not applied on clients, you can use the gpresult command to diagnose the policy assignment verify that your wallpaper policy is displayed in the Applied Group Policy Objects section. You need to specify the UNC path to your image file in this registry parameter.

Use 2 to center and stretch the image. If you want to prevent users from changing the desktop background. For example, in the registry setting policy on the Common tab, enable Item level Targeting , click the Targeting button and use a simple wizard to specify that the wallpaper policy settings should be applied to computers with Windows 10 and users from a specific AD security group.

Similarly, you can make several different wallpaper files for different user groups or devices. By adding the necessary users to AD groups , you can set different desktop wallpapers for different categories of employees.

Also, you can change the login screen image. On computers running Windows 10, the desktop wallpaper policy may not apply immediately. The fact is that Windows 7 and Windows 10 use the desktop background cache differently:. For Windows 10, you can add an additional logoff script that clears the image cache on the user sign out. Any help or suggestions will be appreciate. Just activate it, after that you can use this. Were you trying to do this in RDP connection?

Looks like desktop background can't be changed in remote desktop connections. My windows7 does not even have this personalization option, siriosly. I am also not using any RDP connection…Any other suggestions?

The wallpaper is changed in the registry I checked through regedit. Looks like the rundll update command is not working in Windows 7. It works in XP. I could not find any other command to make the wall paper changes take effect immediately. However a logoff and login would change the wallpaper.

What worked for me is running this command multiple times in a row like 6 times and then it worked notice the space after the comma : rundll I want to make this work in a batch script where some conditions are changed :.

There is two more keys: 1 WallpaperStyle 2 TileWallpaper. Hello, I suppose you changed image1. Thanks for this article anyway, when I searched for a how-to on this topic this was the result which best fitted what I wanted.