Solved how to Change background wallpaper automatically

[cjworsnop]

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

 

[GokAy]

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?

 

[cjworsnop]

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.

 

[cjworsnop]

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\


)