You Can Fix It

In any workforce after a rollout upgrade to an OS there are legacy programs that will not come along. There are then stubborn cheap people who refuse to upgrade the software and demand IT make it work. We ran into this case this week for a computer that serves a dual purpose on to capture data from a old testing device and then report this data in new Office 2010. The reason the data needs to be in Office 2010 is the senior management has 2010 and do not want to wait for a converter. Here is our work around.
The first thing was needed to fin a way to run DOS on top of Windows 7 and we found a website with software that can help. Go to and download DOSbox.com install the program. If you have not seen it before it also works on Vista.

You need to move the DOS data to one folder
Run the program DOSbox
In the command you need type the path of that folder in the command
mount C C:\FolderwhereweputDOS

You can then do a simple DIR command and the list of your files will appear.
Then you only need to find the (.exe) file the runs your program
Type this at the prompt and hit enter.
When you are done you can exit the program as you normally would but DOSBox will stay open.
To exit this just hit the Escape key and type Exit

You return back to the year 2010.

This will show you how to specify a BMP or JPG image of your choice as thedesktop background wallpaper in Windows 7 to be displayed on all users’desktops on the computer. You will also be able to specify that the wallpaper image position to have the center, fill, fit, tile, or stretch style on the desktop. The options to change the desktop background in personalization will not be grayed out, but they will not change anything after you have specified a desktop background in this tutorial.

This will also disable the Set as desktop background (image on computer) or Set as Background (image on website) option when a user right clicks on a image. It will not be grayed out, but it will not work.

Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

In the left pane, click on to expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates,Desktop, and Desktop

To Not Specify a Desktop Background The default setting is to allow users to change their own desktop backgrounds

Select Disabled or Not Configured, and click on OK.

To Specify a Desktop Background and Prevent Change

Select Enabled

In the Wallpaper Name: box, type in the full path of a BMP or JPG image that you want displayed as a wallpaper for all users. For blank wallpaper enter an invalid path

In the Wallpaper Style: drop down menu box, select if you want the wallpaper to be the Center, Fill, Fit, Stretch, or Tile style on the desktop

Click on OK
Close the Local Group Policy Editor window.
Restart the computer