How to over come our silly ADministrator

[HyperHacker]

I too am restricted from changing my wallpaer from the deafult right click > props > wallpaper. However, I can still change the wallpaper. Just download the wallpaper you like, open it, right click it and click "Set as desktop background". This works like a charm for me and the GPOs don't change it back.

This actually doesn't work on my school computers, but I found something interesting. If, after doing this, you use some sort of window manipulation program *cough* to hide the desktop window, your selected image will be under it! You won't be able to click the icons this way, but you can usually just use the Start menu instead. (Or you could turn the window mostly translucent, so you can still see them up close. Or 100% translucent; you can't see them but you can click them. )