Administrator :)
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From Wladimir Bulchukey → To All 14 November 2004
Hello(s), All...!
On Friday I heard out of the blue from one very advanced ninth grader:
"You can't change anything on these machines without an administrator... Damn, how much
I know of ways to put wallpaper on your desktop - none of them work!”
With the best - Wlodek # wlblack(@)newmail.ru # http://wlodeks.narod.ru
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From Roman Alexandrov → To Wladimir Bulchukey 16 November 2004
Hello, Wladimir!
14 Nov 04, 18:22, Wladimir Bulchukey wrote to All on the topic "Administrator :)":
WB> On Friday I heard out of the blue from one very advanced ninth grader:
WB> "You can't change anything on these machines without an administrator... Damn, so much
WB> I know how to put wallpaper on your desktop - none of them work! "
Speaking of tricks, how many ways are there?
Happy connections. Roman.
From Wladimir Bulchukey → To Roman Alexandrov 16 November 2004
Hello, Roman...!
16 Nov 04 00:40, Roman Alexandrov -> Wladimir Bulchukey:
WB>> how much
WB>> ways
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WB>> how to put wallpaper on your desktop
RA> Speaking of tricks, how many ways are there?
The easiest one, of course, is through Screen Properties. This is exactly the feature admins
and turn it off first. But if the admin is too lazy to turn everything off
policies and it just disables the Control Panel, the next simplest
the way would be to use Active Desktop. This one also works on XP
completely unexpected bug feature: Control panel removed in policies,
runs fine from the command line: control.exe . In XP you need more
set permissions on this file only for the system and administrators. In W2K this
there is no hole.
If the administrator has disabled Active Desktop, the next option will be "Make
desktop picture" from Internet Explorer. To ban this
possibility, you need to enable a direct policy that prohibits changes
namely the desktop picture.
But even after this, a similar option in ACDSee continues to work. I'm quite
I rummaged through politicians for a long time and finally banned this too, but I won’t say offhand,
where and what exactly I was spinning. And this is not a fact that from some other
program it will not be possible to plop some kind of program onto the desktopobscenity. Then you have to remember a lot, how else.
(Naturally, users should not have access to policy and registry editors).
With the best - Wlodek # wlblack(@)newmail.ru # http://wlodeks.narod.ru
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From Roman Alexandrov → To Wladimir Bulchukey 17 November 2004
Hello, Wladimir!
16 Nov 04, 09:35, Wladimir Bulchukey wrote to Roman Alexandrov on the topic
"Administrator :)":
WB>>> how to put wallpaper on your desktop
RA>> Speaking of tricks, how many ways are there?
WB> The simplest, of course, is through Screen Properties. It is this feature that admins
WB> and turn off first. But if the admin is too lazy to turn everything off
WB> policy and it simply disables the Control Panel, the next simplest
WB> way would be to use Active Desktop. This one also works on XP
WB> completely unexpected bug feature: Control panel removed in
WB> policies, runs perfectly from the command line: control.exe . In XP
WB> you also need to set permissions on this file only for the system and administrators.
WB> W2K does not have this hole. If the administrator disabled Active Desktop, the next
WB> option will be "Set as desktop wallpaper" from Internet Explorer.
WB> To disable this feature, you must enable the immediate policy
WB> prohibiting changes specifically to the desktop picture. But even after that WB> a similar option in ACDSee continues to work. I've been rummaging through for quite some time.
WB> politicians and still banned this too, but I can’t tell offhand where and what
WB> I was the one who did it. And this is not a fact that from some other program it is not
WB> it will be possible to plop some obscenity onto the desktop.
WB> Then you need to remember a lot, how else.
To be honest, I'm more interested in Windows 98.
Happy connections. Roman.