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Hi Carl1959,
We can use a combination of a custom theme and group policy preferences to change the
desktopbackground color.
Create your starter theme on your desktop with the settings you want to use and save it. Copy it from c:\users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes to a network share similar to this
\\server\theme_share\AeroStarter.theme. Assign this group policy to the user: User -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization -> Load a Specific Theme and
specify your file location similar to this:
\\server\theme_share\AeroStarter.theme
Assign this group policy preference to the user: User -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Registry -> Action: Replace Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key Path: Control Panel\Colors Value:
Background Value type:REG_SZ Value Data:128 64 64 (this is an example of a red
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Assign this group policy preference to the user: User -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Registry -> Action: Delete Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key Path: Control Panel\Desktop Value: Wallpaper.
Regards,
Lany Zhang

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