Disable 'Set As Desktop Background' using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

[christop...@yahoo.co.uk]

Hi all,

I am trying to find a way where I can disable the Set As Desktop
Background under the right click menu on Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer. I was wondering if there was a group policy to allow this or a
VBScript that would disable access to this menu.

Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated.

Thank you

[Florian Frommherz [MVP]]

Howdie!

christop...@yahoo.co.uk schrieb:

> I am trying to find a way where I can disable the Set As Desktop
> Background under the right click menu on Windows Picture and Fax
> Viewer. I was wondering if there was a group policy to allow this or a
> VBScript that would disable access to this menu.

Not that I knew of. If it is all about setting a mandatory
background/wallpaper image, you need to use the "Active Desktop"
policies and define and "lock" the background.

cheers,

Florian
--
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Group Policy.
eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.

[nic...@gmail.com]

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but I thought I
would share for the benefit of others that might be looking. I
stumbled upon this while looking for ways to disable the option to
"Set As Desktop Background" when right clicking on a picture that has
been downloaded to the computer. I too was frustrated with the lack
of options, at least through group policy to prevent this from
happening.

However, when I looked more at the existing group policies and what
they did, I realized that it may be possible to fool the system
slightly. I made my adjustments in GP, tested it and it worked! Here
are the details:

In GP I went to User Configuration / Administrative Templates /
Desktop / Active Desktop. There I enabled Active Desktop and enabled
Active Desktop Wallpaper. This may seem a bit counter-intuitive, but
bear with me. When looking at the information on Active Desktop
Wallpaper, it reads in part, "If the specified file is not available
when the user logs on, no wallpaper is displayed. Users cannot
specify alternative wallpaper." So, as I said, I intentionally fooled
the system, by giving it a local path, in my case C:\blah.jpg, to be
used as the wallpaper, knowing that it would not find that file,
resulting in no wallpaper being displayed, as described above.

I really don't think it should be this difficult, there should be an
way to remove that option from the contextual menu across the board,
but alas, I was able to overcome it by being a bit creative.

Enjoy!

[m.sut...@googlemail.com]

I hope this post helps as I've had similiar problems with "Set as..."
in a different context.

I work in a school and as such lock down the students desktops with
gpo's. We use the active desktop gpo to do so and enforced the bg
picture they should have.

We needed however to display information on the background to help
with remote assistance troubleshooting and decided to use bginfo which
is a great utility for such things. However in doing so we had to
relax the enforcement so that the utility can set the background as
needed. Whilst students can't get to control panel, after we relaxed
this setting they could easily right click a picture they had and
choose the "Set as ..." option.

However, I recently found the answer in that if you type "regsvr32 /u
shimgvw.dll" and unregister this dll, the context menu option
disappears! No registry tweaks....nothing!

I can only hope now that the very innovative students are not able to
find yet another way around this problem.....I won't hold my breath
though!

[pvpdo...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:01:47 AM UTC+8, christop...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
hey guys i need help to admin my workstations, people changing my configuration of the xp os, desktop etc. any who knew or have script to disable their access. thx