W10 1803 Custom Wallpaper Issue

[dtstivo]

We have an odd quirk that is cause a head scratch. We have a custom desktop wallpaper that is applied by GPO. We used the same wallpaper and GPO settings when we used Windows 7 and never had the following problem. Our current version is Windows 10 1803 Education.

 

When a computer first joins the domain the wallpaper is applied and sits happily forever. However, is a user manages to log in without a network connection or loses a network connection during a session the desktop for that user turns black. Once the network connection returns, even after a reboot etc. the wallpaper still stays black! The only way we can change this state is by deleting the profile of the effected user, which does cause irritation for the user, as they have hit save for every password they ever have used which they can no longer remember!

 

Do any of you have any idea while this is happening or how we can resolve this? No amount of Googling is brings up sensible results.

 

Cheers in advance.

[SparkySX]

I've seen this happen before and found this worked:

 

There is different behavior on Windows 7 and Windows 10 on desktop wallpaper. In Windows 7, when we log into the system, the cached wallpaper file will re-generated automatically.

But in Windows 10, if the wallpaper path didn’t change, the cached wallpaper will not re-generate.

After I deleted below file and log off/log on I can see the desktop wallpaper automatically changed on Windows 10.

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper

 

So I applied this deletion operation to the domain controller as a log off script, the script which is as below.

(I created a .bat file and the content is:

del %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper)

 

 

Taken from : https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/f8f104ea-15d9-472a-b4a6-68e8da3f9e64/desktop-wallpaper-group-policy-doesnt-work-for-win-10-clients?forum=winserverGP

Edited December 2, 2019 by SparkySX

[dtstivo]

Cheers SparkySX, I'll give that a go, just to clarify is there intentionally a space in the word Themes?

[SparkySX]

Cheers SparkySX, I'll give that a go, just to clarify is there intentionally a space in the word Themes?

 

No. Isn't a space when I edit the post. Something weird going on there!