how to Change background wallpaper automatically

Hi all,

I maintain a small group of computers in a windows environment. Currently, I have a group policy applying a default wallpaper to each pc, but I have to go around changing this wallpaper for each computer that has a different sized monitor. (the group policy applies a certain named jpg as the background so if i want a different size for a different aspect ratio monitor, i name the differently sized background jpg to the default name). I am curious as if there is anyway to auto size based off resolution? the windows 7 login screen seems to do a good job but I can't seem to find anything despite looking all of the web. I've looked into scripting but haven't had any luck.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

May not be what you want exactly but:

Can't you group similar display computers and apply different policies to them with correctly sized background images?

GokAy said:

May not be what you want exactly but:

Can't you group similar display computers and apply different policies to them with correctly sized background images?

thanks for the suggestion! I was hoping for something a bit more streamline since the computers are already in their respective model OU's.

I was able to write a script based off the some deeper google searches. Basically it grabs the screenheight and width from wmic and sets the picture accordingly. I'll put the script below:

@ECHO OFF
set "screenheight="
set "screenwidth="

::COLLECT SCREENHEIGHT
for /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%F in ('wmic desktopmonitor get screenheight /value') do (
if not defined screenheight set screenheight=%%F
)

::COLLECT SCREENWIDTH
for /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%F in ('wmic desktopmonitor get screenwidth /value') do (

if not defined screenwidth set screenwidth=%%F
)

IF NOT %screenheight%=="" (

copy C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\2015-%screenwidth%x%screenheight%.jpg C:\Windows\Web\
rename C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\2015-%screenwidth%x%screenheight%.jpg defaultBackground.jpg
move C:\Windows\Web\2015-%screenwidth%x%screenheight%.jpg C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\


)