How do I turn off the ability to change the user account picture?

Question

In Windows 7 Enterprise, how can I disable the ability for the user to change the user account picture?

EDIT

I do not want an empty frame on the Start menu (or on the log-on screen). I want our company logo to display, and I don't want it to be able to be changed.

Answer 1

As you are using Win7 Enterprise, I guess they are domain accounts.

I remember seeing a group policy object for this, so I searched and found this:

If you enable the domain GPO object Computer Settings->Administrative Templates->Control Panel->User Accounts->Apply the default logon picture to all users, the user account picture is set to an empty frame in both the logon screen AND the picture area of the Start Menu. This is even after replacing the user.bmp file in %programdata%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures with a different bitmap.

If you take a non-domain member system and enable the same local policy and replace user.bmp, the replaced user.bmp file appears as the account picture in the logon screen. However, once you've logged in, the start menu contains an empty frame account picture.

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Answer 2

First open "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\User Accounts" in gpedit.msc, enable "Apply the default user logon picture to all users", make a 128x128px picture of your company's logo, and save it in "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures" as "user.bmp". And there you go! Your company's logo will now display on the log-on screen and the Start menu!