Policy

Prevent changing lock screen and logon image

Prevents users from changing the background image shown when the machine is locked or when on the logon screen. By default, users can change the background image shown when the machine is locked or displaying the logon screen. If you enable this setting, the user will not be able to change their lock screen and logon image, and they will instead see the default image.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Control Panel / Personalization
Policy ID 535e5a1bcab5
Internal name CPL_Personalization_NoChangingLockScreen

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\NoChangingLockScreen (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization\NoChangingLockScreen (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Prevents users from changing the background image shown when the machine is locked or when on the logon screen. By default, users can change the background image shown when the machine is locked or displaying the logon screen. If you enable this setting, the user will not be able to change their lock screen and logon image, and they will instead see the default image.

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