How to Prevent Users from Changing Start Screen Background in Windows 8

 

The most prominent feature on Windows 8 is the new Start Screen. The Modern screen( previously called Metro UI start screen) is totally different from the traditional start menu in Windows 7 and previous versions of Windows.

Its another matter that many users are not happy with this change and they want their start button back. there are many free and paid alternatives for that. I will post them in new post. 

The start screen allows users to change the background image from the list of available ones in Windows 8.

But if you don’t want anyone to change the background image, you can do so from the group policy.

1. Open the Group policy Editor using the run command. Run-> gpedit.msc and press enter.

2. Under the group policy, navigate to Computer Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Control Panel-> Personalization.

3. On the right side, you can see the option “Prevent changing start menu background”.

4. Double click on this setting and then select Enable from the options.

If you enable this setting, the user will not be able to change the look of their start menu background, and they will instead see the start menu background set prior to enabling this setting.

5. Click Apply and close the editor.

Now on no user will be able to change the background image in your Windows 8 start screen.