Change Lock Screen Wallpaper Gpo

Enable enterprise customers to customize the default lock screen.

Change lock screen wallpaper gpo. Just like wallpaper there is a centralized way to control the lock screen image which is using group policy in a managed domain like corporate environment they typically would want to show company branded image or a disclaimer on the computer lock screen. I just rolled out another 50 win10 ent pc s yesterday with no issues on the lock screen front so i know it is still working with the latest patches. How to change the login screen background on windows 10. Close the local group policy editor window.

Disable changing lock screen using registry editor. Microsoft recently release the november 2012 cumulative update for windows 8 2012 that enables you to configure the default lock screen image for windows 8 see quote below. The screens look slightly different in windows 8 than they do in windows 10 but they re the same settings. You may have thought that this image was customisable by the users in the control panel already however this would only configure the image of the lock.

Windows 10 comes with lock screen image that can be customized in control panel. I think that is ridiculous but i can not change it. When you want to change the lock screen image you will notice that the options are grayed out. You can only set the lock screen on enterprise and education now so if you are only running pro the lock screen gpo s are ignored.

Change the setting from not configured to enabled. Double click the prevent changing lock screen image entry on the right side of the window.