Early in my testing I noted that the desktop background I wanted to display was not getting applied correctly via group policy. At first I thought the following Microsoft KB article would come to the rescue ….<\/p>\n
http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/977944<\/a><\/p>\n Unfortunately, however, this hotfix screwed up a bunch of other settings I had in the default user profile. So …<\/p>\n After uninstalling the hotfix, I migrated from bmp to jpg images smaller than 200 mb and stored them in the preferred windows wallpaper directory of: I have also recently found this article about using “CopyProfile” and the desktop background …<\/p>\n http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/deploymentguys\/archive\/2010\/04\/28\/issues-with-copyprofile-and-windows-7-wallpaper.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n I don’t actually use “CopyProfile” for reasons in: but … perhaps the above links will help others …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early in my testing I noted that the desktop background I wanted to display was not getting applied correctly via group policy. At first I thought the following Microsoft KB article would come to the rescue …. http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/977944 Unfortunately, however, … Continue reading
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\nIn this directory I actually created a sub-directory for all my Williams backgrounds. Now I point my group policy setting<\/a> to one of these files as needed and all is fine …<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/windows-7-user-profile-copy\/<\/a><\/p>\n