If you want to revert back, select either the “Disabled” or “Not configured” option in the policy properties window. Once the system is restarted, users will no longer be able to change the default account picture. Select “Enabled” in the policy properties window, and click on the “OK” button to save the changes.
In the group policy editor go to “Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> User Accounts.” In the right panel double-click on the “Apply the default account picture to all users” policy to open it.ģ. Open the Start menu, search for “gpedit.msc,” right-click on it and select the option “Run as administrator.”Ģ. If you don’t want users to change their user account picture, you can block that option using the Group Policy editor.ġ. Prevent Changing Account Picture Using Group Policy This is how it looks once you are done.įrom now on, whenever you create a new user account or when a user doesn’t set the user account picture, the modified custom icon will appear. After renaming, copy and paste the earlier resized and renamed icons into the “User Account Pictures” folder. You can simply copy the icons from another system though.Ĥ. But if you do that, you might not be able to restore the default icons when needed. Note: If you don’t want to go through the renaming process, you can simply delete or replace them. Here you will see all the default user account icons.ģ. Once you are done, launch File Explorer and go to the “%ProgramData%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures” folder. Now, create five copies of the icon and resize and rename them as follows:Ģ. Make sure that the width and height are the same. First, download the picture or icon of your choice that is at least 512px x 512px. By replacing these default pictures with the icon of our choice, we can change the default account picture.ġ. Windows stores the default user account icon in the PNG format within a system folder in a variety of sizes. You can even standardize the default user account icon by preventing users from changing it. If you don’t like the default user account icon, you can change it to the icon or picture of your choice.
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