How to Prevent Others From Changing Your Windows 11 Wallpaper

by mahershalalhashbaz ©Techtarget 2025

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You have many options to stop users from changing the desktop background on Windows 11. You can install a third-party app to set a specific wallpaper and lock it or change the Local Group Policy Editor or Registry Settings to prevent wallpaper change.

This article will share two of the best ways to prevent others from changing their desktop wallpapers. Both of the methods require Local Group Policy Editor modification. Here’s how you can prevent others from changing the desktop background in Windows 11.

1. Prevent Changing the Desktop Background

In this method, we will make a few changes to the Local Group Policy Editor to prevent others from changing the desktop background. Here’s what you need to do.

a) First, click the Windows 11 search and type in Local Group Policy Editor. Next, open the Edit group policy app.

b).This will open the Local Group Policy Editor on your computer. You need to navigate to this path:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization

c). On the right, scroll down and double-click on the Prevent changing desktop background policy.

4. On the next Window, select the Enabled option. Once done, click on the Apply button and then on Ok.

This will block the wallpaper-changing option on your Windows 11. Now the background option on the Personalization page will show “Some of these settings”.

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