In the days of Windows XP, wallpaper would change instantly.Īnother interesting note. What surprises me though, is googling people don't mention it, just the "Black/Blank" screen issue. I've tried a gpupdate /force but really, this should just work through GPO, since the registry has updated and the preview of desktop wallpaper on the Personalize screen has updated with the change, but the actual desktop wallpaper hasn't, my guess here is it's a bug with Windows 7. Please help, anyone else experience this issue? Have a solution? I've tried this hotfix, it hasn't worked, nor do we get the blank/black desktop issue others appear to complain about: http:/ / / kb/ 977944 Sadly we have a requirement to change the wallpaper during the day, sometimes to coincide with the activation of another service.
The only thing that works is to log off and back in again, however, most users login in the morning and only log off at the end of the working day. Locking and unlocking the screen does not work.Ĭlosing explorer.exe and restarting it (often used in Windows XP days to force registry changes to explorer to take effect. Right-clicking the desktop and choosing refresh doesn't work (not that I'd want it to) If you check Personalization from the desktop, you can see the Desktop Background preview shows the new wallpaper, yet the desktop does not. This works on Windows XP, however on Windows 7, we get the issue that currently logged on users do not receive the new wallpaper when Group Policy does a refresh. I have also tried Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Wallpaper
We have some complex requirements for Desktop Wallpaper, based on dates it must be certain wallpaper for certain groups of users, to accomplish these requirements I've used a Group Policy and Preferences within to copy files from a network share to the local hard drive and set the registry entry to the new wallpaper:
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