Taskbar Colour Change through GPO

[samwells1234]

Hi Everyone!

 

Basically the school wants staff to have a different taskbar colour to the kids. I have tried saving a theme and trying to deploy it through GPO but it failed.

 

Anyone with another idea on how to do this with simple instructions are welcome because I have never touched registry or scripting before if that's what is involved to do this.

 

Thanks!

[datajunkyxl]

Hi Samwells,

 

What operating system are you using, please tell a bit more about the environment? Are the kids all using 1 general roaming account ?

 

Greetsz

[kevin_lane]

Tell them its a stupid idea better to have different colour desktop background colour

[samwells1234]

The reason why this has been suggested is so that we can see if a child is logged on as a student or staff user. The taskbar does not disappear If any software is loaded unless its in full screen but students mainly use microsoft office anyway so the taskbar is always visible. It's easier to identify if someone is logged on as a staff or student user.

All students have the same desktop i didnt setup the network so im not too sure if they have a roaming profile but i dont think they do. The OS is windows 7 32/64 Bit.

[fairm010]

Our Aero task bars change colour based on the wallpaper behind. We have a different wallpaper for staff and students which works well.

[samwells1234]

@fairm010 do you have any basic instructions to do that?

[fairm010]

You'll need different wallpapers for a start. Our most common resolution here is 1920 x 1080 so I created a Red and a Blue wallpaper in Paint.net with a 1920 x 1080 canvas size. Put them in a shared area. Create and assign GPO's to staff and students pointing to their respective wallpaper. If the PC's GPU supports Aero it will be enabled by default and the wallpaper will show behind the taskbar.

[carnforthhigh]

You can change the colour of the Windows 7 taskbar using group policy. Amdinistrative Templates - Windows Components - Desktop Window Manager - Window Frame Colouring. We have a different colour for staff and students, works a treat.