Find and Change Your Assigned Desktop Background

FindDesktopBG.ps

# 1. Find and decode where your assigned desktop background is located

$TIC=(Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop' TranscodedImageCache -ErrorAction Stop).TranscodedImageCache

[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString($TIC) -replace '(.+)([A-Z]:[0-9a-zA-Z\\])+','$2'

# 2. Open the file location in Explorer
# 3. Copy the image you wish to have as your BG into that directory
# 4. Copy the name of the assigned desktop background, then rename it to something like justInCase.jpg
# 5. Rename the new image as the old image
# 6. Restart and log back in, you should see your new image as the background.
# 7. Repeat if the company pushes new images out