Using BgInfo to show server information on the desktop
If you’ve not seen BgInfo before, here’s the description from the Sysinternals site -
How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.
I’ve cut back the config to show just the info I need, and also added a script to output the installed .NET frameworks. It’s designed with our Windows 2003 and 2008 web servers in mind. Here’s my config…
bginfo.zip (384KB)
Just extract the zip to C:\Program Files\BgInfo. Update.bat can be added to the All Users start-up group so every time a user logs in, BgInfo will update the desktop.
