Network Administration & Consulting Services

Resetting the Background Colors on Clients Computers by Using GPO

Posted Tuesday, 30 December 2008 by Misha Hanin

To control background colour on the client’s computer (XP) the custom ADM file (BGColor.adm) could be created. The BGColor.adm should be manually added to the network environment before start using it. Here is a content of BGColor.adm:

CLASS USER
CATEGORY !!category
CATEGORY !!categoryname
   POLICY !!policyname
   KEYNAME "Control Panel\Colors"
   EXPLAIN !!explaintext
   PART !!labeltext DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
   VALUENAME "Background"
   ITEMLIST
    NAME "Normal" VALUE "0 128 128"
    NAME "Black" VALUE "0 0 0"
    NAME "White" VALUE "255 255 255"
    NAME "Red" VALUE "255 0 0"
    NAME "Brown" VALUE "128 0 0"
    NAME "Yellow" VALUE "255 255 0"
    NAME "Green" VALUE "0 128 0"
    NAME "Sky" VALUE "0 255 255"
    NAME "Brown" VALUE "0 0 255"
    NAME "Blue" VALUE "0 0 255"
    NAME "Dark Blue" VALUE "0 0 128"
    NAME "Pink" VALUE "255 0 255"
    NAME "Grey" VALUE "160 160 164"
   END ITEMLIST
   END PART
   END POLICY
END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY

[strings]
category="Custom Policy Settings"
categoryname="Desktop BG Colour Changer"
policyname="Change the background color of the client computer via GPO"
explaintext="This policy sets the background color of the client computer"
labeltext="Select Colour"