Prevent changing of wallpaper etc for specific account

Hey Guys,


I know you can disable software installation/changing of wallpapers for users via gpo. My question is, is there a way i can disable these settings for just one account alone? There are 2 local accounts, 1 teacher and 1 student. I want to be able to have the teacher account be free to do what ever but have the student account locked down. Is this possible or would it only be able to be done if the computer is on a domain?


Regards.

Hey Shawn,

Thank you very much for that link it works perfectly! Just a couple questions i have please.

1) Do i have to do these steps for each computer or can i copy that msc file and run it?

2) The restrictions are working and the student account does not have access to change the background. The warnings that pop up 'This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer' is expected but, after that a 'Explorer.EXE Unspecified error' comes up. Is that normal or can i have that error removed.

Thank you for the help =)

Hmm well its more than 30 computers lol. Is there a way to maybe export and import the policies so i can create the msc file and just import the policies i have configured?

I fixed the error, what i did was, based on your link, gone to 'show only specified control panel items' and added 'Microsoft.Action Center' to the list of allowed items. Error is gone now and the user cant access the personalization or anything else yay!

Thank you very much for the help =)