I am setting a desktop background for some test VDI workstations via GPO using the "Active Desktop Wallpaper" setting. The GPO needs the "Active Desktop" setting enabled to work. However, when you enable the Active Desktop setting, the "drop shadows" for icons settings disappears. Even setting the registry key HKCU\Software\MS\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ListViewShadow to the required 1 doesn't make the transparent icon text appear. Disabling Active Desktop brings the drop shadows back - however, my desktop wallpaper is now gone.
has anyone managed to force a desktop wallpaper via GPO that maintains the drop shadow icon settings on XP? Or would I need to set it some other way? I have tried setting the registry keys for wallpaper using reg.exe but they seem to apply after the user logs back out, for some reason. TIA, JRR *"On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.*" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
