Active Desktop Without Current Home Page?

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Ben Blackmore

Hi,

I'd like to set 'Enable Active Desktop' through our group policy, as we use
jpegs as wallpapers, however if I do this when users first login they get
their homepage displayed on the desktop, which can be annoying, and sometime
confusing for them. So we either have to disable Active Desktop again via GP
or we have to go into display properties and untick 'My Current Home Page'
from the 'Web' tab, which will take quite a while on all our workstations
spreadout over the site.
Is there not a setting in GP that will disable 'My Current Home Page' but
leave active desktop enabled?

Cheers

Ben
 
Hi,

I'd like to set 'Enable Active Desktop' through our group policy, as we use
jpegs as wallpapers, however if I do this when users first login they get
their homepage displayed on the desktop, which can be annoying, and sometime
confusing for them. So we either have to disable Active Desktop again via GP
or we have to go into display properties and untick 'My Current Home Page'
from the 'Web' tab, which will take quite a while on all our workstations
spreadout over the site.
Is there not a setting in GP that will disable 'My Current Home Page' but
leave active desktop enabled?

Cheers

Ben
Click to expand...

Try disabling Active Desktop Wallpaper Group Policy is (User
Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Desktop\Active Desktop

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Paul,

Thanks for the email, it seems to have worked! I was going to send you an
email, but hotmail went weird, and deleted your email before I could reply!

Ben
 
Ryan said:
I was having the same problem. Now when I disabled the Active
Desktop, my jpeg wallpaper does not show up. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

Well, convert it to bmp :)
AFAIK you need to use Active Desctop to view jpeg wallpapers.

Al.
 
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