Damn dude I've heard of schools icing their boxes out but that pretty extreme. I honestly have no idea at this point personally

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>>22617
Yeah I don't understand why they'd put this much restriction on simply changing your desktop background.

Considering asking /pr/ about injecting the registry with echo, remember hearing something about that a while back.

>>22618
Honestly I wouldn't do anything. If it's that iced they probably have someone monitoring it which could get you in trouble and I doubt the change would last longer than your current session.

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>>22620
Not going to try anything right now. I think they're going to have to change this policy anyway. Whatever they've done to stop users changing the background with a browser, they've also ruined utilities like copying images to the clipboard.

Wait, seriously no one in this thread gets why they forbid changing the background on a public-use machine? Your trolling is as weak as your hacking.

>>22623
OP knows why, he's just pissed he can't change all the school's backgrounds to porn.

>>22623
>>22626
Do know why, just want a waifu background tbqh.

>>22623
In my defense I have not been in school in a long fucking time so no I never thought of him changing the wallie to Riley Reid.

>>22627
You want to change the wall on a dinky school pooter so it can be your waifu. That's true love right there.

>>22614
Just ask the IT helpdesk to allow changing wallpapers. Say that you can't concentrate without your waifu. Make sure to get as many students spamming their email, too. If these are public computers, then your school won't probably allow this, though.

>>22620
Also, this. Just using someone else's account can be considered "hacking" or a data breach.

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>>22614
I'vd been out of the "hacking" game for quite a while, now. 95/98/ME/XP were my playgrounds.

That said, if there is already a wallpaper in use, can't you just find that file and replace it with a different picture and give it the same name? Do it from a linux USB or CD if you can't write the file from windows?

Unless the wallpaper is looked up on a server somewhere and updated on each boot or something, which I find doubtful.

I have a similar question:
I want to change the go-to-screensaver/turnoff - monitor time on my computer at work, but those options are not available (but you can change your wallpaper all you want, go figure)

Why? So I can be away from my desk longer and nobody can use the state of my monitor as an indication of how long I might have been "missing".

It's a Windows 7 machine,and they use active directory to lock everybody down.

But here's the kicker:
You're only prevented from making changes, the settings themselves don't seem to be enforced, because some computers I was able to change before the lockdown happened still have my old settings.

>>22644
Usually they'll put the background in a restricted folder that normal users can't write to. At login it'll update that image with a copy from the server so any changes are only temporary.

It sounds like your workplace defined the 'prevent users from changing' setting but didn't define the value itself. They're different settings in the policy, all they have to do is enable it and populate it with their preferred value and voila, a uniform time is enforced.

95/98/SE/ME were very different creatures, it was actually a problem to limit users since by default users had full control. NT is the opposite, users normally have no control and administator features must be explicitly added. XP suffered from being long in the tooth by the time it was retired with a dizzying array of patches plugging holes while simultaneously opening additional holes.