Black wallpaper

[forwardgreen]

I have a GPO to set all student laptops to have the same customized wallpaper however 1 machine just shows as black. The GPO is obviously working but this machine is resisting. On the client, the display setting show the correct wallpaper selected. I'm at a loss. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

[Joanne]

Ooohhh I had this a couple of years ago... a registry fix did the trick.

 

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/11b982d0-c317-4a00-80f4-1ffd78523ff3/blank-black-desktop-in-windows-7-domain-pcs

[mowgli82]

check the file size of the wallpaper it doesn't seem to like them over 800k

[forwardgreen]

Thanks for the quick replies. The registry key is in place, the wallpaper is the standard ing0.jpg so its under 800k. I created a new user but theres no change.

Logging in as a network admin is fine. Its just the pupil logins that get it.

[Novalee]

Could the WMI repository be corrupt? Try winmgmt /verifyrepository in CMD to see if it comes back as consistent or not.

[forwardgreen]

Could the WMI repository be corrupt? Try winmgmt /verifyrepository in CMD to see if it comes back as consistent or not.

 

Is consistent.

[AJWhite1970]

Silly question but is the copy of Windows licensed? I had one do that and it was because it had lost contact with it's KMS server. As soon as I repaired it, it went back to normal. Never found out why, it never displayed the not licensed warning etc, I remember we lost hours trying to fix it...

[Novalee]

Is consistent.

Well that's me out of ideas!

[forwardgreen]

Silly question but is the copy of Windows licensed? I had one do that and it was because it had lost contact with it's KMS server. As soon as I repaired it, it went back to normal. Never found out why, it never displayed the not licensed warning etc, I remember we lost hours trying to fix it...

 

Funny enough, it wasn't licensed, (thought i'd done it!) however it is now, no change. Baffling isn't it. It was a fresh build too.

[Joanne]

Do the pupils have read access in the folder that the desktop wallpaper is located?

 

Mine is in server\netlogon\environment

[Patrick]

Does this hotfix need applying?

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/977944