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Old 01-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
Jane C


 
 

Re: Is it possible to disable the user account picture in the Star

Hello Gabriel,

If you are using Business, Ultimate or Enterprise, then you can change this
via Group Policy:

Type gpedit.msc into the Start/Search box and press enter. Navigate to
Computer Configuration, expand to Administrative Templates, Control Panel,
User Accounts. In the right-hand pane, you should see the policy "Apply
the default user logon picture to all users".

Explanation of this policy:
This policy setting allows an administrator to standardize the logon
pictures for all users on a system to the default user picture. One
application for this policy setting is to standardize the logon pictures to
a company logo.

Note: The default user picture is stored at %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User
Account Pictures\user.bmp. The default guest picture is stored at
%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\guest.bmp. If the default
pictures do not exist, an empty frame is displayed.

If you enable this policy setting, the default user logon picture will
display for all users on the system with no customization allowed.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be able
to customize their logon pictures.

You can enable the policy, and remove the default user.bmp.

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
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MVP Windows Shell/User

"Gabriel Lozano-Moran" <GabrielLozanoMoran@xxxxxx> wrote
in message news:0AB7E096-8758-4BB9-8B78-029BFD5E21F9@xxxxxx
Quote:

> No, I mean literally removing the pictures from the top of the Start menu
> in
> Windows. Right now in Windows Vista you either see a duck, a cat, a dog, a
> horse ... which I find very idiotic. I want to know if it is possible
> through
> a policy setting or anything else to disable this picture so no picture is
> displayed at all. Is this possible?
>
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