thimon Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 Happy Tuesday everyone! I was wondering what everyone had set as their standard desktop wallpaper (across school)? Do you have a policy in place? Do you allow students to change the wallpaper? Have you stuck with the default Windows wallpaper or set your own custom design? I'm asking as we're thinking of updating ours. Any examples would be also welcome Thank you.
AJWhite1970 Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We use BGInfo to set all the wallpapers for all users across the whole school. Everyone has a blue background with the school logo on it, no-one can change it. I think it looks far more professional in a classroom that having funny pictures of cats on the desktop showing on a projector. Been like that for 9 years now and no-one complains...
Boredguy Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We also use BGInfo to set all wallpapers. Normally it is a plain background with username/computer name, but we do roll out different themed ones every now and then.
FN-GM Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We have the wallpaper branded with the school logos and colours. Everyone has the same including IT so no fall outs
bossman Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We have 2 corporate wallpapers, one for Staff and one for Students so Staff can see at a glance if a student has obtained a member of Staffs credentials. Staff: Student:
3s-gtech Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 BGInfo with a small school logo and some computer support info. Then GPO to set logon backgrounds in 7, 8.1 and 10 to a nice big bold version of the logo.
Katy Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We have the logon background set to an aerial view of the school with logo printed over it (but doesn't appear on most PCs as they're 10 LTSB), and once logged on the desktop is just a plain black screen. May change this in future to something similar to what @bossman has. Years ago we used to have a plain magnolia (ish) background with the school crest plus "STAFF (or STUDENT) ACCOUNT" written on it.
Popular Post victory2015 Posted January 31, 2017 Popular Post Posted January 31, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. 5
3s-gtech Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 You also got the Start Menu layout to work. Are you a wizard?
Rob_D Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We use BGinfo (run at login) with the school logo on a green background and user/computer info.
thimon Posted January 31, 2017 Author Posted January 31, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. [ATTACH=CONFIG]41144[/ATTACH] Ooo love the idea of a Log Off tile! Thank you everyone, has given some food for thought. May toy with the idea of BGinfo.
6Foot2 Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 We use BGInfo to set the wallpaper. Plain blue for all users, a darker blue for students. BGInfo also puts user and station details on the wallpaper (Station name, Username, and IP address) Users cannot change the wallpaper.
LeMarchand Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 Swirly but plainish Logon background in school colour for all. Teachers/Admin staff have always been allowed their own wallpaper on "their" machines (unfortunately - but last time I complained on here about that I got shot down), Curriculum machines have similar to logon at 2 schools and at the school I have most time at they get a tiled "student" or "staff" as appropriate that the LEA used to provide that looks like a solid (different for each) colour + BGInfo.
Asgard Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 A picture of one of our buildings Start menu is part of our Mandatory Profile
richbrowncardiff Posted January 31, 2017 Posted January 31, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. [ATTACH=CONFIG]41144[/ATTACH] Would you mind sharing the VBSscripts ? like what you have done also showing the disk space. 2
NetworkNinja Posted February 1, 2017 Posted February 1, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. [ATTACH=CONFIG]41144[/ATTACH] I love the idea of having Week A/B on the desktop, is this set via Bginfo? if so how did you get it to work.
Garacesh Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 (edited) We just use a photo of the school building with a splash of colour, "$SCHOOL_NAME Network" and the school logo. The main reason we do this is so that if anything goes walkabouts (such as a school laptop) it's immediately obvious to any pawn shop/guy down't pub where it came from. So as a quickly whipped-up-in-5-minutes visual demo, something like this: [ATTACH]40773[/ATTACH] Edit: Attachment isn't showing an image, but if you click it, it works. Edited February 3, 2017 by Garacesh
thimon Posted February 3, 2017 Author Posted February 3, 2017 We just use a photo of the school building with a splash of colour, "$SCHOOL_NAME Network" and the school logo. Wow. That's a nice looking school building!
mullet_man Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. [ATTACH=CONFIG]41144[/ATTACH] Everything about this is amazing, how did you get the big SIMS icon? Am guessing you use a script to change the background? As I've found Windows 10 doesn't like an updated JPEG and just caches the old one. 1
Latham Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 This is ours, uses a combination of vbs scripts and bginfo to set the text for thoughts of week and week numbers. We also change the actual image each week in the background. [ATTACH=CONFIG]41144[/ATTACH] Just imagine that this is a big animated gif of Wayne and Garth going "We're not worthy!"
jamiedonaldson1 Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 how did you get file explorer to pin to start menu? It must be the only thing that I can't add to the shared start menu.
Katy Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 how did you get file explorer to pin to start menu? It must be the only thing that I can't add to the shared start menu. Using the XML I have this for the file explorer on the start menu on Win 10: Then inside the redirected start menu there is a shortcut to "This PC" (I think I made this on Win 8 where you could go to the desktop and right click on This PC -> Create Shortcut, doesnt seem to be an option to do that on win10). I've attached my shortcut (zipped)File Explorer Shortcut.zip
jamiedonaldson1 Posted February 21, 2017 Posted February 21, 2017 Using the XML I have this for the file explorer on the start menu on Win 10: Then inside the redirected start menu there is a shortcut to "This PC" (I think I made this on Win 8 where you could go to the desktop and right click on This PC -> Create Shortcut, doesnt seem to be an option to do that on win10). I've attached my shortcut (zipped) Thanks Katy, that worked perfectly.
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