Wallpaper in Windows 7 locked down by domain group policy?
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I am in a situation where my wallpaper is locked to a specific image on my work computer via group policy. I can't change it via the Personalization settings since it is grayed out and says it has been set by the system administrator. Anyone know some local GPO and/or registry hackery I can do to o…
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I was able to get around by going to this location in the registry: Inside, there's a key called . I deleted it and re-set the desktop background, and it worked. You'll have to do that every time you log on though, as group policy refreshes itself. …
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