wallpaper change for all users from registry is not taking effect

I am making «wallpaper» and «wallpaperstyle» strings in

It is not taking effect but same registry entries for current users is working fine in

But I want it for all users.

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I’m confused. You say it does not work here:

but that it works here:

This is the same key!

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Sorry my mistake, I ment it works with

And it does not work for any users when applied in

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It would be great if you could help with it.

I am not that good with scripts.

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I am not that good with scripts.

A good opportunity to practise your batch file skills . . .

@echo off
goto Start
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Specify the wallpaper file for the current user
30.9.2017 FNL
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reg query «HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop» /v Wallpaper 1>nul 2>nul && goto :eof
reg add «HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop» /v Wallpaper /t reg_sz /d d:\Wallpaper.jpg > nul

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Thanks for the quick response 🙂

I am from network background but yes, one should keep learning new things. Being in IT it’s must.

The provided scripts will work for all profile?

Thanks for helping.

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The provided scripts will work for all profile?

This is for you to find out!

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Will check and reply back.

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This will not help me as I have to make changes on more then 600 PC’s remotely (non-domain environment) , I can only use .bat file to deploy wallpaper change/lock (using Kaspersky security center). Enabling logon script will require changes from GUI, cannot connect to each machine to make changes using GUI.

It should take effect on all profile/users on PC and restrict them from changing wallpaper.

That’s why wanted to use below key but its not taking effect.

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I don’t know about that. I think it works like this:

When a user is created their profile is created in the registry and part of that profile are the settings copied from the default values in local machine — including at least parts of the policies section if there is one. That would be default values and things.

Now that user has a profile that belongs to them and in you make changes in the current user profile they will work.

If you go back and make changes in local machine policies some of them will not affect current users who already have a profile and their own policies section in their profile (current user).

You can do this as a test to verify:

If you have already made your desired policy adjustments to local machine and they are not working for current users, make a new user and see how the policy settings look for the new user and I think they will match the local machine settings.

Same desktop image for all users

Is there away in windows 7 to set the background for all users to the same image as the administrator?

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sorry my bad, the photos must be .jpg and the location must be given in full i.e. C:\Users\Windows 7\Pictures\Start.jpg and not Libraries\Pictures\Start.jpg

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Be sure to have the wallpaper that you want to be displayed for all users saved in either one of the C:\Users\Public folders, or in the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper system folder.

If you save the wallpaper in one of your user account’s C:\Users\(user-name) folders, then the other users will not have access permission to see it and will only see a blank wallpaper instead.

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I´m trying to change default wallpaper to our organization style. I don´t want to use GPOs for that. Commands are run during Task Sequence, cmd or powershell.

I tried few things already;

1. REG ADD «HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System» /V Wallpaper /T REG_SZ /F /D «C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows\backgroundDefault.jpg»

— will not work because the hive is user based. Will only apply to the current user.

2. Replace img0 file with our own img0.jpg into C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows\img0.jpg

— replacement okay, but still it uses dark blue theme from somewhere.

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For us, this is handled in the login script. So, we allow Windows to do whatever it wants during profile creation and then put our own wallpaper in place afterwards. This still leaves the user free to change it if they want.

You might also be able to do this via changes to the default user profile, but we haven’t tried that for desktop wallpaper.

For us, this is handled in the login script. So, we allow Windows to do whatever it wants during profile creation and then put our own wallpaper in place afterwards. This still leaves the user free to change it if they want.

You might also be able to do this via changes to the default user profile, but we haven’t tried that for desktop wallpaper.

Our scripts are a bit complicated, and we also generate the wallpaper programmatically (at the current screen res), but what we do is basically this:

1. Create the jpg, and store it in the user’s profile somewhere.
2. Set the Wallpaper key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop to point to the full path to the file.
3. Use the SystemParametersInfo function to set the wallpaper in the current session (Setting the registry key doesn’t affect the current session).

Our stuff is a bit specific to our environment (as it includes generating the jpg on the fly), but there are command line tools for doing the same kind of thing in a login script: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matthew_van_eerde/archive/2012/10/10/changing-the-desktop-wallpaper-using-idesktopwallpaper.aspx

The one downside is that the user will see the default wallpaper briefly before the script replaces it.

1. Create the jpg, and store it in the user’s profile somewhere.
2. Set the Wallpaper key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop to point to the full path to the file.
3. Use the SystemParametersInfo function to set the wallpaper in the current session (Setting the registry key doesn’t affect the current session).

Could you share the full solution with us, please? All the command lines etc.

It seems, that in Windows 10 this works differently as in Windows 7, because none of Winwos 7 — instructions apply to Win10.

I don´t want to use Group Policy or Preferences, I´m trying to avoid domain releations here, because the solution needs to be multiplied.

Force same wallpaper for all users in Windows 7

If you are an administrator of a Windows 7 based computer, then you can force same desktop wallpaper of your choice for all users. The users should be standard users and should not have administrator rights or they would be able to change the desktop wallpaper back. Here is how :

1. Press the key combination Windows Key + R to open the Run dialog. Type gpedit.msc in the Run dialog and press Enter.
2. In the Group Policy Editor, select in the left side tree view : User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Desktop → Desktop.
3. In the right side, find a value Desktop Wallpaper. Double click on it to edit it.

In the Desktop Wallpaper settings window, select Enabled on the top-left. Type in the full name of the wallpaper file. The wallpaper file should be either JPEG or BMP file. You can select the wallpaper style from the dropdown list.

Then click on the OK button to save the chages

Now all the users on your computer will have the same desktop wallpaper and they will not be able to change the wallpaper or the wallpaper image file.

Windows 7

Windows 7
Year of release	2009
Default wallpaper	img0
Included image types	Wallpapers Sample pictures User account pictures
Notable artists	Chuck Anderson Erik Attkisson Will Austin Giovanni Simeone Theo Allofs
Agencies used	Getty Images Corbis SIMEPHOTO age fotostock Masterfile
Preceded by	Windows Vista (2006)
Succeeded by	Windows 8 (2012)

For pre-release wallpapers and pictures, see Windows 7 Beta.

Windows 7 is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2009. It is the successor of Windows Vista. Whereas Vista was a critical and commercial failure to a certain extent, 7 was received more positively. It would be followed by Windows 8 in 2012.

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Wallpapers [ edit | edit source ]

For Windows 7’s wallpapers, Microsoft continued to rely on rights managed images from Getty Images and Corbis, as with previous versions. However, they also licensed images from other sources, such as SIME/4Corners Images, Photolibrary, and individual photographers’ PhotoShelters. While 7 continues the tradition of using photography, two new themes consisting of illustrations were added, to give it more personality. The illustrators were found through agency 72 and Sunny. [1] They also worked with photographer Will Austin, who assisted Microsoft with selecting six wallpapers from his stock collection, as they wanted a local Seattle flavor in 7’s themes. [2] [3]

While Vista included a set of 16:10 widescreen wallpapers, this is also the first Windows version where all of the wallpapers are 1920×1200, as widescreen displays were more widespread by 2009.

The default wallpaper is img0, created by Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson. Whereas XP and Vista Starter editions have unique wallpaper sets, 7 only has one wallpaper for its Starter edition, which is an edited version of its default wallpaper.

Name	Category	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	img0	Windows	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson	Default wallpaper The version featured in Starter is different, featuring a white logo and less details; it is also the only available wallpaper
	img1	Nature	Corbis	zefa	Pete Leonard
	img2	Nature	Corbis	Corbis	Mark Bolton
	img3	Nature	Rob Tilley’s PhotoShelter	Rob Tilley’s PhotoShelter	Rob Tilley
	img4	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img5	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img6	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img7	Landscapes	Getty Images	Getty Images	Martin Ruegner
	img8	Landscapes	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Carr Clifton
	img9	Landscapes	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Tim Fitzharris
	img10	Landscapes	Photolibrary	Photolibrary	Stuart Westmorland
	img11	Landscapes	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	img12	Landscapes	Getty Images	Getty Images	Cornelia Doerr
	img13	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img14	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img15	Architecture	Corbis	zefa	Gregor Schuster
	img16	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img17	Architecture	Getty Images	Getty Images	Andreas Stirnberg	A building has been removed, while the cloud has been moved
	img18	Architecture	Corbis	Arcaid Images	John Gollings	Buildings have been blurred out
	img19	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Yuko Kondo
	img20	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Katharina Leuzinger
	img21	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Osmand Nosse
	img22	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Klaus Haapaniemi
	img23	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Red Nose Studios
	img24	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Punga
	img25	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Pomme Chan
	img26	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Kustaa Saksi
	img27	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Nanospore
	img28	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Adhemas Batista
	img29	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Kai and Sunny
	img30	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Hvass Hannibal

Regional [ edit | edit source ]

Windows 7 features regional themes for 20 countries, similar to XP Starter Edition featuring 3-6 wallpapers for each country. The team behind these themes licensed images from a wide range of stock photo agencies, including Getty Images, Corbis, SIME/4Corners Images, Masterfile, age fotostock and JupiterImages (which was acquired by Getty during 7’s development). Jennifer Shepherd also hosted a worldwide photo contest where Microsoft employees worldwide were able to submit photos that represent their country. Employees of each country voted on the best wallpapers for their theme, including both stock photos and winning images from the contest. [4]

As well as built-in themes for each of the 20 countries, the team also produced downloadable themes of the same countries that were available from Microsoft’s site after 7 was released. The team produced a total of 40 themes, two for each country. 20 of these are included in 7, while the other 20 were available for download as soon as 7 was released. From 7 onwards, themes have the wallpapers set as a slideshow, while XP-era themes had one default wallpaper often with a few extra options.

Right now this page will only list the built-in ones, but it is possible that the downloadable ones will be included in the future.

Name	Region	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	AU-wp1	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	AU-wp2	Australia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Damm Fridmar
	AU-wp3	Australia	age fotostock	Pixtal	Martin Ruegner
	AU-wp4	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Jose Fuste Raga
	AU-wp5	Australia	Getty Images	Getty Images	Philip Kramer
	AU-wp6	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp1	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Herve Collart
	BR-wp2	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp3	Brazil	N/A	Microsoft	Leandro Cruz de Paula
	BR-wp4	Brazil	Getty Images	robertharding	Marco Simoni
	BR-wp5	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp6	Brazil	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Tui De Roy
	CA-wp1	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	Roy Ooms
	CA-wp2	Canada	age fotostock	All Canada Photos	David Nunuk
	CA-wp3	Canada	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Reinhard Schmid
	CA-wp4	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	J. A. Kraulis
	CA-wp5	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	J. David Andrews	Flipped horizontally
	CA-wp6	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	Miles Ertman
	CN-wp1	China	Corbis	Brand X Pictures	Steve Allen
	CN-wp2	China	Corbis	Corbis	Liu Liqun
	CN-wp3	China	Corbis	Corbis	Frank Lukasseck
	CN-wp4	China	Getty Images	China Span	Keren Su
	CN-wp5	China	Corbis	Grand Tour Collection	Aldo Pavan
	CN-wp6	China	Corbis	Corbis	Xiaoyang Liu
	DE-wp1	Germany	Getty Images	MedioImages	unknown (credited on Getty to Medioimages)	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp2	Germany	Getty Images	MedioImages	unknown (credited on Getty to Medioimages)
	DE-wp3	Germany	Getty Images	Westend61	Dieter Heinemann	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp4	Germany	Getty Images	Westend61	unknown (credited on Getty to Westend61)
	DE-wp5	Germany	Getty Images	unknown	Frank Krahmer	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp6	Germany	N/A	Microsoft	Holger Gawrisch
	ES-wp1	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	Jose Fuste Raga
	ES-wp2	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	John and Lisa Merrill
	ES-wp3	Spain	Corbis	zefa	Guenter Rossenbach
	ES-wp4	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	Fransesc Muntada
	ES-wp5	Spain	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Ripani Massimo
	ES-wp6	Spain	N/A	Microsoft	Roberto Barrios Sanchez
	FR-wp1	France	Masterfile	Masterfile	Miles Ertman
	FR-wp2	France	Getty Images	Photonica	B.SCHMID
	FR-wp3	France	Corbis	Corbis	Doug Pearson
	FR-wp4	France	Masterfile	Masterfile	Frank Krahmer
	FR-wp5	France	Corbis	Corbis	Christophe Boisvieux
	FR-wp6	France	Getty Images	Getty Images	David Noton
	GB-wp1	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Philip Kramer
	GB-wp2	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Travelpix Ltd
	GB-wp3	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Peter Adams
	GB-wp4	United Kingdom	Corbis	Corbis	Richard Cummins
	GB-wp5	United Kingdom	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	GB-wp6	United Kingdom	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Olimpio Fantuz
	IN-wp1	India	N/A	Microsoft	Medha Jain
	IN-wp2	India	age fotostock	age fotostock	Stuart Westmorland
	IN-wp3	India	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Spila Riccardo
	IN-wp4	India	Getty Images	Getty Images	Eric Meola
	IN-wp5	India	N/A	Microsoft	Pareekshit Singh
	IN-wp6	India	Corbis	epa	unknown (credited on Corbis to epa)
	IT-wp1	Italy	Getty Images	Getty Images	Darrell Gulin
	IT-wp2	Italy	Corbis	Grand Tour Collection	unknown (credited on Corbis to Grand Tour Collection)
	IT-wp3	Italy	Corbis	Corbis	Sergio Pitamitz
	IT-wp4	Italy	N/A	Microsoft	Marco Carrubba
	IT-wp5	Italy	Corbis	Atlantide Phototravel	Guido Cozzi
	IT-wp6	Italy	Corbis	Corbis	Hubert Stadler
	JP-wp1	Japan	Getty Images	Sebun Photo	Hideaki Tanaka
	JP-wp2	Japan	Corbis	Corbis	unknown (credited on Corbis to Image Plan)
	JP-wp3	Japan	N/A	Microsoft	Shinobu Takahashi
	JP-wp4	Japan	Masterfile	Masterfile	Jeremy Woodhouse
	JP-wp5	Japan	Corbis	Corbis	Robert Essel
	JP-wp6	Japan	Getty Images	Getty Images	unknown (credited on Getty to Tohoku Color Agency)
	KR-wp1	Korea	Getty Images	DAJ	unknown (credited on Getty to DAJ)
	KR-wp2	Korea	age fotostock	age fotostock	Matz Sjöberg
	KR-wp3	Korea	Corbis	Corbis	Christophe Boisvieux
	KR-wp4	Korea	Jupiterimages	Jupiterimages	unknown (credited on Getty to Jupiterimages)
	KR-wp5	Korea	Jupiterimages	TongRo Images	unknown (credited on Jupiterimages to TongRo Image Stock)
	KR-wp6	Korea	Getty Images	DAJ	unknown (credited on Getty to DAJ)
	MX-wp1	Mexico	Getty Images	Getty Images	Stuart Dee
	MX-wp2	Mexico	Masterfile	Masterfile	Freeman Patterson
	MX-wp3	Mexico	Corbis	Westlight	George H. H. Huey
	MX-wp4	Mexico	age fotostock	age fotostock	Martin Siepmann
	MX-wp5	Mexico	Corbis	Westlight	Randy Faris
	MX-wp6	Mexico	age fotostock	hemis	Hervé Hugues
	NL-wp1	Netherlands	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Frans Lemmens
	NL-wp2	Netherlands	Getty Images	Getty Images	Betsie van der Meer
	NL-wp3	Netherlands	age fotostock	age fotostock	René van der Meer
	NL-wp4	Netherlands	Getty Images	Tony Stone Images	Tony Craddock
	NL-wp5	Netherlands	Corbis	Corbis	Keren Su
	NL-wp6	Netherlands	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Gaudenzio Luciano
	PL-wp1	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	César Lucas Abreu
	PL-wp2	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Henryk T. Kaiser
	PL-wp3	Poland	Corbis	zefa	Manfred Mehlig
	PL-wp4	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Henryk T. Kaiser
	PL-wp5	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Piotr Ciesla
	PL-wp6	Poland	Corbis	Corbis	Eastcott Momatiuk
	RU-wp1	Russia	age fotostock	age fotostock	Eric Baccega
	RU-wp2	Russia	age fotostock	age fotostock	Wojtek Buss
	RU-wp3	Russia	Corbis	ITAR-TASS	Alexander Kolbasov
	RU-wp4	Russia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Gräfenhain Günter
	RU-wp5	Russia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Alexander Petrosyan
	RU-wp6	Russia	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Konrad Wothe
	TR-wp1	Turkey	Corbis	Jon Arnold Images	Michele Falzone
	TR-wp2	Turkey	Corbis	robertharding	Adam Woolfitt
	TR-wp3	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Derek Berwin
	TR-wp4	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Mahaux Photography
	TR-wp5	Turkey	Getty Images	Lonely Planet	Dallas Stribley
	TR-wp6	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Marc Romanelli
	TW-wp1	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Kenny Chen
	TW-wp2	Taiwan	age fotostock	age fotostock	Vidler Steve
	TW-wp3	Taiwan	age fotostock	Cretas	unknown (credited on age fotostock to Cretas)
	TW-wp4	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Perry Lu
	TW-wp5	Taiwan	age fotostock	age fotostock	Sylvain Grandadam
	TW-wp6	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Sam Shih
	US-wp1	United States	age fotostock	age fotostock	Alan Majchrowicz
	US-wp2	United States	Getty Images	Getty Images	Ron and Patty Thomas
	US-wp3	United States	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	US-wp4	United States	N/A	Microsoft	Shek Lun Ho
	US-wp5	United States	Corbis	robertharding	Lee Frost
	US-wp6	United States	Getty Images	Getty Images	Steve Bly
	ZA-wp1	South Africa	Corbis	Corbis	Andy Rouse
	ZA-wp2	South Africa	Masterfile	Masterfile	Daryl Benson
	ZA-wp3	South Africa	Masterfile	Masterfile	Freeman Patterson
	ZA-wp4	South Africa	Corbis	Corbis	Jon Hicks
	ZA-wp5	South Africa	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Ripani Massimo
	ZA-wp6	South Africa	N/A	Microsoft	Keith D. Smith

Sample pictures [ edit | edit source ]

7 has eight sample pictures. Half of them are royalty free Corbis images; the other half were taken by Microsoft employees. Like with Vista’s sample pictures, they are all at a resolution of 1024×768.