Prevent Remote Desktop Wallpaper
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There are a few different ways that a user can optimize a Remote Desktop Connection. One such way is to prevent desktop wallpaper from being displayed to a remote desktop client. You can do this by editing the Local Computer Policy on the Remote Desktop host computer.
Open the Group Policy Editor. Navigate to the following: Computer Configuration| Administrative Templates| Windows Components| Terminal Services. In the Details pane, double click Enforce Removal of Remote Desktop Wallpaper, select Enable, and click OK. Once this setting is enabled, desktop wallpaper is never displayed on any remote desktop client computers.
5 Comments
kkavemann
April 25th, 2007
at 10:41am
Sure, enabling forced removal from Group policy removes wallpaper AFTER personal settings have been loaded. To remove the 2mb DELL Wallpaper from loading on Remote Desktop you have to rename or change the DELLWALLPAPER.BMP file in C:\windows\system32
Grahame
November 12th, 2007
at 12:22am
I am connecting to a Windows 2003 Server R2 through the remote desktop from my Windows Vista machine.
For some reason the desktop background(wallpaper) on the server is getting lost.
I remote desktop to lot of servers, so i put up a wallpaper on each server with the server’s name to make it easy for me when i am logged in couple servers. I can not change the server desktop backgroung from the remote client is seems disabled
Please help!!!
Khengsiong
November 23rd, 2007
at 1:19am
Same problem as Grahame’s, except that my local PC runs on XP.
Doyle
November 28th, 2007
at 3:20am
Strange same thing here… Want to enable the wallpapers on the different servers.
Pop Tufty
March 14th, 2008
at 12:33pm
If you want to see the wallpaper on the machines you remote desktop into, then you have to modify the settings on the remote desktop connection tool at the client machine. Push the [Options] button, select the |Experience| tab, then select the “desktop background” checkbox. The wallpaper on your remote server will now show on your local machine.