Windows 2000 Login Screen

[Flare]

At work, we are not supposed to be able to change our wallpaper on the logon screen. Yet, somehow, many people do this by accident. How does this happen? I've tried the registry, and searching for the wallpaper file with no success. Does anyone know where this setting is?

THanks,
cj

[GaryRouth]

Most large corporations use Group Policies to restrict user changes, but there are also third-party programs that can control access (such as softheap's "1st Security Agent" or IBM's "Director").

There is the somewhat obvious Registry item "Disable Change Wallpaper", but that only prevents changes from being made via the Display applet in Control Panel (also accessible by a right-click on a blank space of the Desktop). http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q280687

If you're not in the IT department, you needn't be concerned about a few desktops skirting the wallpaper policy, unless the IT department does happen to care, and just hasn't found out yet. The third-party tools lock down such situations pretty effectively. By the way, if your company has been mostly Windows 2000 until recently, the Group Policies might have to be altered a little to work with XP clients. I imagine there are tutorials on this on the MS support pages, probably on TechNet.

. . . Gary