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Computer Information As Your Wallpaper

Posted May 20, 2008 by Jason Faulkner  

Another great, yet oh so simple, tool from Sysinternals is the ability to plaster local computer information on your desktop background using BgInfo.

BgInfo allows you to select from a couple of dozen system information fields and have them displayed on your desktop background. Additionally, you can capture this information and have it written to a text file or database. Obviously, this tool is not going to be of too much use for desktop users, but if you are the administrator of several machines or servers, this is an extremely handy tool.

There is a great article on TechNet which focuses on BgInfo in which the author offers a great idea:

Though you can run BGInfo on one PC at a time, you might want to trigger it on multiple network clients. You can insert the bginfo.exe file into a login script; the program provides several command-line options to control its behavior. The data collected by BGInfo can also be exported to an external file—a text file, Excel spreadsheet, Access database, or a SQL database, so that you have a handy resource of all your network PC stats.

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