Disable 'save as background' in IE?

[RobC]

Now, now Russ. Can't make life too easy for you...

[GrumbleDook]

Now, now Russ. Can't make life too easy for you...

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I agree ... that's not very fair of you to single out those to the north of civilisation (eg anywhere above Liverpool) ...

 

I still reckon it is that lot over in Wales that will casue problems.

 

And can you please change your sig Rob ... you failed to mention that any posts may contain nuts or be made by one. I once almost had an allergic reaction to a coconut ... nothing actually related to you or your posts ... in fact it wasn't really an allergic reaction ... it was being knocked out by someone throwing a wooden ball at one on a coconut shy at a fair ...

 

erm ... I'll get my coat.

[jonny_valentine]

Am I missing something?

 

I've just set up GPO's as recommended by tarquel, and logged on as a pupil. I can't see any way they can change the wallpaper now.

 

They just get the blue html wallpaper I set for them.

 

Yes, the 'set as desktop background' is still on Explorer's context menu and Picture and Fax Viewer, but it no longer has any effect.

 

I haven't used any registry hacks, scripts or the like, just GPO. As far as I can see, it works.

 

Yes, but it still technically sets the wallpaper when they do that, so it will show up upon logging on/off. My kids got really crafty and, using that knowledge, found a really nice way around it... The use task manager to end explorer.exe and re-run it a few times. After that it somehow braks the active desktop, and no desktop shows, just a white error screen. At this point, anything you set as your desktop stays your desktop =/ After this i finally cracked down and disabled task manager, but they just went online and found a proprietary version of the task manager and ran it from there USB drives. I still havn't found a way to stop this from happening...

 

I must hand it to them though, these kids are rather bright and resourceful, i simply wish they'd use there intelect to go places and do things rather than focus on getting around stupid things like default backgrounds.

 

 

hehe, kids are damn clever sometimes.. anyway, you should look up reg.exe and reg.ini to set permissions on the control panel registry key for local user. This works for me, since they dont have access rights to change the background. GPO's are bypassable in oh so many ways.