Can someone tell me the registry key for these to disable for users? Let me suggest a registry tweak to disable your desktop background buddy. Check its string value "Nochangingwallpaper" change its Dword accordingly. It has many other applications as well but pc fixer is the nicest among them as it fixes almost every problem. Thanks Office Office Exchange Server.
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Any ideas? Friday, August 3, PM. For your reference, we can disable "Set as Desktop background" with one of the following methods: For Windows XP Professional Edition: 1. Then we can double click the reg file to import the content to registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.
Monday, August 6, AM. You can lock the wallpaper to one of your choice, and this overrides any other settings a user uses. Run regedit. If it doesn't exist, create a string with it. As the value, set it to the location local or UNC of your wallpaper image. That works. Monday, November 19, PM.
Sunday, December 16, PM. Monday, November 12, AM. Hi Rob, Based on my test, the above group policy will disable the "Set as Background" option in IE, and also the related options in the Desktop Properties.
You can try the following steps to disable it: 1. Tuesday, November 13, AM. Tuesday, November 20, AM. And can you,in more detail, walk me through that? Thursday, December 13, AM. Saturday, January 12, PM. Hi, As I know, this issue is usually caused by spyware or virus. You can also try the following: Suggestion 1: Create a new user account to test. Double click the saved file and click Yes if prompted.
Your Windows XP is genuine now. Scott Macmillan. Doing this would be piracy to Microsoft because you did not activate Windows. Modifying the registry will probably work and will, on the other hand, probably screw your computer.
If you know what are you doing then editing registry will only solve many problems. Yes a registry backup and a restore point would help but that's only if you still can access Windows or the Safe Mode and things didn't go horribly wrong. The string "DigitalProductId" should contain an encoded version of the Product Key currently used by the Windows installation. Now, you said you used that key but it is still reported as not genuine. Firstly make sure that the License Key on the sticker is for the exact Windows version installed on the PC.
If you have a genuine Windows key then the obvious and logical choice would be for phone activation. Why bother? Thats why you trial on error. Thats what I did, I modded many dlls to replace icons and edit dialogs and it works better than original thanks to tweaks. Share Share Tweet Email. Related Topics Answers.
MakeUseOf Articles Published. We also have a registry hack to change screen saver settings. These screen saver settings are stored under the following registry key.
Set the value of the registry value ScreenSaveActive to 0. From command line you can run the below command for doing this. Set the data in the registry value ScreenSaveTimeOut to the timeout limit in seconds.
For example if you want to set the time out to 20 minutes you need to change the value of this registry key to From command line you can run the below command to change screen saver timeout limit. You can password protection by setting the data in ScreenSaverIsSecure to 1. If you set this to 0, you will not be asked to provide password when you interrupt the screen saver to resume the user session.
Read the post Change screen saver from windows command line using registry key. The commands for disabling screensaver and for changing timeout appear identical. Is this correct? Thanks in advance! Our upload to website I can download. Thanks for help.
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