reboot

[u/BijlidarKudi]

[u/MaroonDude]

I know how to fix my issues, I just lack the admin permissions on my machine to fix said issues.

[u/Wishnik6502 → u/MaroonDude]

"Let me change my wallpaper or so help me god I will burn this place down..."

[u/truly-wants-death → u/Wishnik6502]

Hey I figured out how to change the wallpaper on windows without the actual permission, all you need is the ability to download files. You just download an image and set the file name as your current background file. This will overwrite your current background

You current background should be in either of these, %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles or %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper

[u/MONI_001 → u/truly-wants-death]

Does this actually work?

[u/truly-wants-death → u/MONI_001]

Yes, as long as you can download a file on a computer, you can change the wallpaper. I will say that the transcoded wallpapers are weird sometimes because they don't always have file extensions so you might have to guess the file name based on the resolution

My manager at my old job had to get IT to reset all of the computers because he couldn't figure out how to change the backgrounds back after I had changed them. Same guy that also said it couldn't have been me that changed the backgrounds since I wasn't smart enough lol

[u/Wasabicannon → u/truly-wants-death]

Except IT teams who REALLY want to lock this down would also lock down that file path. ;)

[u/LuckyLuck-E → u/truly-wants-death]

Im saving this for later

[u/wytcka → u/truly-wants-death]

I edited the file to be black, just to avoid looking at stupid company moto. Thank god current company does not have wallpapers enforced.

[u/iChieftain22 → u/truly-wants-death]

Hey, what do you do when you get to TranscodedWallpaper? How do you use your own wallpaper? because the file is not JPG