Lock Screen Image Resolution

[pjhunt]

Hi All,

 

Banging my head against a wall with one how are people setting there lock screen and wallpapers so they fit on most resolution displays we have a mix of widescreen and non widescreen but can't seem to find a happy medium,

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated

[Steve21]

Do you have any logic as to where there are wide vs not? Things like teachers not for projecters, students are etc? If so it's normally easier to just use WMI filter etc

 

If it's literally random, only nice way I found before was using a local script that worked out if it's wide or not, and just copies the right one from a file share

 

Steve

[pjhunt]

Thanks for your reply, it is completely random so I shall get my PowerShell head on tomorrow

[DJ-1701]

I have found that interrogating the computer at the boot stage doesn't always provide the right... or sometimes any... screen resolution data... as I also put a custom wallpaper on login I used a script that would write the data to a location in the registry that can be used on bootup as well.

 

More information can be found here...

 

https://github.com/DJ-1701/GenerateWallpaper

[Norphy]

For our lock screens, I took a slightly different approach.

 

Like @DJ-1701, I have a PowerShell script which appends system information onto a graphic. I have several high-res versions of that graphic in different screen aspect ratios (4:3, 5:4, 16:9, 16:10, 3:2) which covers most of the screens we've got. When the script runs, it detects the resolution of the primary screen, works out the aspect ratio, shrinks the wallpaper with the appropriate aspect ratio down to the screen size and appends the system's information to it. It then saves the results in a folder on the PC's local hard drive.

 

There is a scheduled task that runs this script. It gets run on startup, when a user logs on and when a user locks their PC. That scheduled task is pushed out by a GPP, as are the base wallpapers. I've set the "Force a specific default lock screen and logon image" GPO to the file that the script generates.

 

It works well.