BGInfo is a corking utility to display machine data inward the Desktop Background. Having the data displayed for the systems that you’re working with, makes it really tardily to encounter to a greater extent than or less of the basic data well-nigh the machine in addition to lets yous know chop-chop which servers or VM yous connected to. This utility comes from the Sysinternals suite in addition to is available for download at Microsoft Technet Sysinternals.
Bginfo is oftentimes a necessity inward a server or lab environment, but it tin endure used anywhere. Some of the most pop data to display is:
- OS version
- SP version
- IP address
- Boot time
- Disk “Free Space”
…but at that topographic point are lot's to a greater extent than options. In fact, yous tin configure bginfo to display only well-nigh whatsoever attribute of the system.
Automatically Run at Startup
It's best to run bginfo at startup silently in addition to unattended. To practise so, yous take away to edit the next registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Create a new REG_SZ value nether the “Run” telephone substitution named “bginfo”, or whatever yous want. The value of the telephone substitution volition endure the path to bginfo.exe, in addition to whatsoever parameters yous desire to pass. The 3 most mutual are: /silent /accepteula /timer:0 to run bginfo silently at startup. Don't purpose the /all parameter. For to a greater extent than or less argue unless the user has admin rights, using the /ALL switch throws upwards an mistake message.
Something else to endure aware of — specially if yous intend to run bginfo inward an corporation amongst UAC turned on in addition to GPOs applied — is to decease on the output bitmap file inward a place that the logged on user has write permissions. The argue for this is that bginfo runs inward the user context to display on the user’s desktop; in addition to because the data is “dynamic” — at to the lowest degree at each user logon — the output bitmap file needs to endure updated. You tin alter where bginfo stores the .bmp nether the Bitmap -> Location… menu. The default place is inward the user’s TEMP directory, which should endure okay.
