How To: Prevent Windows Vista Users From Changing The Display Settings
In Windows Vista, users can easily change desktop wallpaper, screen saver, themes and other appearance settings by right-click on Desktop and select Personalize. By a simple registry tweak, you can prevent all users on the Windows Vista computer from changing the display settings like screen resolution, refresh rate and color depth as well as the dpi size. This Windows Vista Registry Tweak is very useful for network administrators who want to prevent users from changing the display settings on their workstation.
- Open Notepad editor from Windows Vista start menu.
- Copy and paste the following code into the new text document:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
\System]
“NoDispSettingsPage”=dword:00000001
- Save the document as DisplaySettingsNoChange.reg.
- Merge the new file into the Windows Vista registry by right-clicking it, selecting Open With, and finally clicking Registry Editor.
- Windows Vista might prompt you with the UAC(User Account Control) acknowledgment window. Click on the “Continue” button.
After this when you right click on your Windows Vista desktop to change the display settings you won’t be able to do it.
If you need to restore this functionality, follow these steps:
- Open Notepad editor from Windows Vista start menu.
- Copy and paste the following code into the new text document:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
\System]
“NoDispSettingsPage”=dword:00000000
- Save the document as DisplaySettingsChange.reg.
- Merge the new file into the Windows Vista registry by right-clicking it, selecting Open With, and finally clicking Registry Editor.
- Windows Vista might prompt you with the UAC(User Account Control) acknowledgment window. Click on the “Continue” button.
Alternate Method:
Download, extract, and double-click on DisplaySettingsNoChange.reg to merge the registry values into the Windows registry. You can use the included DisplaySettingsChange.reg file to rollback the changes.
Prevent Users from Changing the Display Settings in Windows Vista
Warning: Modifying the Windows registry can cause serious damage to your Windows Operating System.It is better to backup your Windows registry data before making any changes. Tomstricks.com is not responsible for any changes you may make to your system.
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