dubsdj Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Hi there. I have set a group policy for users desktops and enabled Active Desktop. I have then added the bmp to the active desktop wallpaper. The users log in and the wallpaper appears fine, but the icons look awful, they are not transparent and look like they have been cut out of a scrap book??? Any ideas why its doing this?thanks
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 My guess would be that enabling Active Desktop did that to the icons. I'm not 100% positive about that though since one if the first things I do is disable the ability to use it (through a GPO). You don't need it enabled to use a bitmap wallpaper.
dubsdj Posted September 13, 2007 Author Posted September 13, 2007 cheers for that, I will give it a try
dubsdj Posted September 13, 2007 Author Posted September 13, 2007 That Didn't work , backgrounds stopped working when I switched active desktop to non configured.I'm using Bitmap background because Jpegs don't seem to refresh properly.
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Are you using logon scripts? The reason I ask is because you can set the wallpaper during the logon script, and use a GPO to hide the Desktop tab of Display Properties. There are ways the user would be able to change it, but it'd be forced by the logon script again the next time they logon.I use this method for forcing a common screensaver for all of our users. At work I don't have direct access to the GPOs to force this through a Group Policy but I can make local changes. Our logon script forces the screensaver and its settings and the Screen Saver tab of Display Properties is hidden so they can't change it (easily). Should they manage to change it, it just gets reset the next time they logon.
dubsdj Posted September 15, 2007 Author Posted September 15, 2007 Thats a great idea, I never thought of that...Have you got any example of how I can set the background through the logon script?
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 (edited) What are you using for a logon script? If it's VBScript I'm afraid I can only be of limited help...but I can provide a bit of KiXtart script that will usually translate fairly easily. Or you could just call the script I use directly from the VBScript. Edited September 17, 2007 by nmX.Memnoch
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