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How To Enable/Disable Changing Desktop Background In Windows 7?

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Changing desktop background is very easy. One can easily right click on a image and ‘Set as desktop background’. You have a favorite image which you set as desktop background. Later you don’t want any other guest users of your Windows 7 PC to change the desktop background. You can prevent changing desktop background on your PC. Follow the steps below:

1. Login to Windows 7 with Administrator Rights.
2. Type ‘gpedit.msc’ in the Start menu search box.
3. This will launch Local Group Policy Editor. In the left pane propagate to:
User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Control Panel –> Personalization
4.  In the right pane, double click on “Prevent changing desktop background”.

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5. In the “Prevent changing desktop background” window, select “Enabled” option.

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6. Click Apply and then OK.
To check whether what you have done is working, right-click on desktop and choose “Personalize”. The option “Desktop Background Slide Show” will be grayed out. Also right-click on any image and “Set as desktop background” will do nothing.

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To enable changing the desktop background image again, follow the same steps. Except in step 5, choose option “Not Configured” and Click OK.

Posted On November 25, 2009 | Tags:, , , ,

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3 Comments

  1. Steven January 21, 2010 at 1:10 am

    The Desktop Slide Show is already greyed out, and I cannot set any new wallpapers. I tried this, enabled it, disabled it, and left it as not configured, but nothing changed. Advice?

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    • dkszone January 21, 2010 at 2:41 am

      This may be because of the ‘Desktop Wallpaper’ setting.
      Open Local Group Policy Editor and navigate to User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Control Panel –> Desktop –> Desktop.
      In the right pane, look for the setting titled ‘Deskto Wallpaper’. Make sure this is either ‘Not Configured’ or ‘Disabled’.

      When this setting is enabled, a wallpaper is fixed for the desktop and so you will not be able to change the desktop background from the personalization gallery.

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