Locking down display settings

Earlier, we had a quick preview of configuring a screen saver to be enabled and password protected, but there are many additional display settings that are common to find inside a User experience lockdown policy. Many of those settings are available at User Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | Control Panel | Personalization, so let's test some of them out.

I am going to enable a bunch of different settings inside here. The following is a list of the setting names that I am inserting into my policy:

  • Prevent changing theme = Enabled
  • Enable screensaver = Enabled
  • Prevent changing desktop background = Enabled
  • Prevent changing screensaver = Enabled
  • Prevent changing sounds = Enabled
  • Password protect ...

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