Set a desktop item prevention

[DKK 0]

I am a school teacher who is trying to prevent pupils setting desktop items to anything other than the standard blue screen.

They are saving in appropriate pictures as screen savers.

I am using NT4 and windows 2000

[adamvjackson 0]

You might want to consider the use of DeepFreeze, a product which discards any/all changes made to a system upon rebooting. Volume/Educational licenses are available, too.

[Admiral LSD 0]

You might be able to use polices for this sort of thing but I must admit I wouldn't know the first thing about setting them up.

[David Kurtanidze 0]

Solution

 

Open Regedit.exe

 

Find this key:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop

 

Create a new DWORD value (listed below)

Set the value to equal 1 to enable the restriction

or 0 to disable the restriction.

 

List of policies:

NoAddingComponents

NoComponents

NoChangingWallpaper

NoDeletingComponents

NoEditingComponents

NoCloseDragDropBands

NoMovingBands

NoHTMLWallPaper