GPO tool

Group Policy made searchable

A free ADMX browser or comparison tool for IT administrators. Search policies, find registry keys, and see exactly what each setting writes to the Windows Registry. Or compare two GPO backups to see exactly what has changed between them.

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Apply the default account picture to all users

This policy setting allows an administrator to standardize the account pictures for all users on a system to the default account picture. One application for this policy setting is to standardize the account pictures to a company logo.

Note: The default account picture is stored at %PROGRAMDATA%MicrosoftUser Account Picturesuser.jpg. The default guest picture is stored at %PROGRAMDATA%MicrosoftUser Account Picturesguest.jpg. If the default pictures do not exist, an empty frame is displayed.

If you enable this policy setting, the default user account picture will display for all users on the system with no customization allowed.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be able to customize their account pictures.

Registry Information

VendorMicrosoft
ProductCpls
CategoryUser Accounts
Applies toComputer Configuration
Supported onWindows Vista
Registry Key[HKLM]SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer
Value NameUseDefaultTile
TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled value1
Disabled value0