ms paint in 2000

[frank049]

I am working in a school with win2k prof. and server. We have the desktops locked down pretty tight. The problem we are having is that we are trying to set a school background. Have set it in group policy so that background cannot be changed. The problem is that they pupils can go into paint and save the image and then save as background!
have checked microsoft web site and they say that the background can me by passed.
this only works with roaming profile users. man. profiles are okay though they do allow to set as background but when logged off and then log back on again display is reset to as we want it.
I'm sure I've read some were about a registry hack to address this but cannot find anywere.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.

 

[PeteH2]

Understandably, you'd like to stop them saving images to as wallpaper. But as this is removed at boot time and presumably the PC's are booted between lessons, would this not be acceptable to 'The powers that be' ?

Pete...

 

[Jocsta]

I have a somewhat technical solution to the problem.
Modify mspaint.exe to remove the menu options.

Using "resource hacker" (freeware utility-google will find it) you can remove the offending menu items so they can never be selected in 4(ish) easy steps.

1) In "RH" - open mspaint.exe. In the tree view select menu->2->1033
2) Delete the items you wish not to appear
3) Click "compile script"
4) File->save
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5) replace all mspaints with this new one.

<< JOC >>

 

[frank049]

Thanks for that I think that this will do the job.

The reason why I need to disable this is because of large classes (teachers not monitoring)and sometimes the wall paper can be offensive to staff as well as pupils.

thanks again.