%WINDIR% in Wallpaper Policy

[Guest]

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I am trying to use the 'Active Desktop Wallpaper' policy.
Currently it works fine when set
to 'C:\Winnt\Web\Wallpaper\Corp.htm'
However when I try to use it with %WINDIR% in place of
C:\Winnt nothing is displayed on the desktops. Just the
background colour.
We made this change to allow the policy to work on Windows
XP (%WINDIR%=C:\Windows , not C:\WINNT).

 

[ken]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

Peter-

I'm not sure if you need it, but maybe %SYSTEMDRIVE% or
something like that so it'd read %SYSTEMDRIVE%%WINDIR%
\web\wallpaper\corp.htm

other than that, why not put the wallpaper on a shared
resource, and point to it w/ a UNC path?

Just some thoughts--they may be wrong 😉

Ken


>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to use the 'Active Desktop Wallpaper' policy.
>Currently it works fine when set
>to 'C:\Winnt\Web\Wallpaper\Corp.htm'
>However when I try to use it with %WINDIR% in place of
>C:\Winnt nothing is displayed on the desktops. Just the
>background colour.
>We made this change to allow the policy to work on
Windows
>XP (%WINDIR%=C:\Windows , not C:\WINNT).
>
>.
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

Use %SystemRoot% instead of %Windir%
It points to Windows folder. (for example C:\Windows or C:\Winnt).

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

%SYSTEMROOT% and %WINDIR% produce the same result.
On Windows 2000
%SYSTEMROOT% = C:\WINNT
%WINDIR% = C:\WINNT
On Windows XP
%SYSTEMROOT% = C:\Windows
%WINDIR% = C:\Windows

"Igor Fomin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6F907151-5D53-4AA6-ADF9-8F74C68B3C9E@microsoft.com...
> Use %SystemRoot% instead of %Windir%
> It points to Windows folder. (for example C:\Windows or C:\Winnt).