Display Properties

[Steve Ritchie]

I have used GPO with W2K Server to disable Display options
in XP Clients. I want to have a few backgrounds in
C:\WINDOWS that i want the users to be able to choos from,
but how do I stop them clicking on the "browse" button to
stop them looking for other files.... ?

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

In the Group Policy Editor for XP go to:

User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Desktop, Active Desktop, Allow
only bitmapped wallpaper.

The registry key and setting are:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\ActiveD
esktop
NoHTMLWallPaper
DWord value. 1 = Only BMP wallpaper, 0 = All wallpaper

Then even though they can browse, they can only use BMP files for wallpaper.
Just make sure the ones you want to use are available in BMP format.

There doesn't appear to be a way to just restrict the browse button.
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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"Steve Ritchie" > wrote in message
...
> I have used GPO with W2K Server to disable Display options
> in XP Clients. I want to have a few backgrounds in
> C:\WINDOWS that i want the users to be able to choos from,
> but how do I stop them clicking on the "browse" button to
> stop them looking for other files.... ?