Hey, I’ve been looking around for a bginfo solution. I tried the original one from sysinternal tools
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo
but it always changes the background to “tile”, I don’t know why..
There are hotfixes out there but I don’t want a hotfix. I want a “real solution”
So I found this page.
https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/poc-tatoo-the-background-of-your-virtual-machines/
So started with that, then I’ve worked further with it and now
it’s finally working as I want and the result is this:
So first, Download this script.
Link bginfo.zip
Then just run the script either as a scheduled task or login script in GPO. No bginfo.exe is needed or anything extra.
If you want to change the information on the background, open the bginfo.ps1
then go to the
“#Writing info to the background” part, and then change what information that you want to use 🙂
And if you want to change the Background to be stretch instead of fit, you change this part, change the -style to stretch.
Another thing that is great is, if you want to force a background also, you change this part active, just take away the #
So that’s it
Good luck while using it
Pontus
Fantastic alternative and works very well on Windows 10. Does not work on Windows 7 though. Any ideas on how to modify to work on both versions?
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Thanks! Hmm thinks some commands is needed by Powershell5, thats why it doesnt work, havent tried tho. Can try to get it work👍
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Yea if this could work on win 7 it would be amazing, really solve my bginfo issue
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Thanks for your efforts Pontus and for sharing!
I’d like the option to locate the info to the lower-left of the desktop instead of top-right. Is that possible?
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Would also love to know how to change the position of this. Great script!
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There’s a few things that can go wrong here. 1) Your BMP save will try to save to the same file name every time the script runs. If the file already exists and it’s already set as the background, your save will fail with a generic GDI+ error. To fix that, you will need to make the $Outfile name unique every time it runs. 2) This does not work with multiple monitors where there is a combination of both landscape and portrait mode. This is because the script takes the entire resolution of the desktop and the ‘tallest’ y axis measurement brings the information off the screen. Perhaps messing with alignment could fix this. But generally this is not dynamic enough for crazy monitor setups, which seems to be more common these days.
Still though, very cool script. I appreciate this at least being an option since BGinfo from SysInternals has its own silly limitations with resolution and scaling.
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