Wednesday, October 13, 2004

bginfo

Drew found a fantastic little application from sysinternals called bginfo. Its job is to write useful and/or important information about your machine onto you desktop background. It has the capability of extracting information from the Windows registry, from WMI, from files and from a VBScript script.

We're thinking of using it at Rhodes to display information that's commonly requested by the helpdesk, but usually involves lengthy instructions to get. Some examples of things like this are the computer's MAC address, IP address, processor, etc. I'd also like it to display the computer's asset number, which involves fetching data from a database. This necessitated my quickly learning enough VBScript to fetch a web page. I hate VBScript.

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