How do I deactivate the Properties Settings in order to prevent users from changing the desktop wallpapers in Properties Settings?

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As always, before editing your registry, always backup it up first!

Use this to hide the Background tab under Control Panel >Display, to prevent
users from changing desktop background and wallpaper settings.

Hit Start, click Run and type Regedit {enter}. Navigate down to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Edit/create the value "NoDispBackgroundPage" (DWORD value) and set the value
to "1" (without quotes) to hide the Background tab. To re-enable the tab, set
the value to "0". The setting will take effect immediately and does not require a reboot.

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 5:08 pm, rdali wrote: How do I deactivate the Properties Settings in order to prevent users from changing the desktop wallpapers in Properties Settings?

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You will find plenty of Registry tweaks at WinGuides.

Also, here's a program that's pretty handy: DeepFreeze



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Can you get thru to that link, at Winguides? I haven't been able to...

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You will find plenty of Registry tweaks at WinGuides.

Also, here's a program that's pretty handy: DeepFreeze



        
 

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The link works fine here!



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Thanks -- I followed your link and finally figured out how to reverse the last effects of a recent trojan/spyware attack. It had created a "wallpaper" registry line and set it to c:\wp.bmp (a blue windows-error-mimicing page, telling me to run any available spyware program... a phony version of which had been conviently installed as a dsktop link), and then set the NoDispBackgroundPage registry to 1. So, even once I found and deleted the wp.bmp file itself I couldn't switch the wallpaper to anything else, and couldn't even access the "desktop" tab in the properties menu. Now all's well.


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THANK YOU! Had a problem with my background tab that disappeared, and this fixed it. You are now my all-time favorite person - well, for the next 5 minutes at least.


On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 5:33 pm, LarryJ wrote:
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>Use this to hide the Background tab under Control Panel >Display, to prevent

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>Hit Start, click Run and type Regedit {enter}. Navigate down to:

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>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

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>Edit/create the value "NoDispBackgroundPage" (DWORD value) and set the value

>to "1" (without quotes) to hide the Background tab. To re-enable the tab, set
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>value to "0". The setting will take effect immediately and does not require a reboot.
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