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#1 User is offline   dawvi 

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 09:36 AM

Hello. I have a question and thought maybe someone here would know if it can be done or if its even possible.

I was wondering if there was a way to customize or edit the desktop info that earlier and beta versions of windows displays on the bottom right corner.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

And create or modify the DWORD “PaintDesktopVersion” and give it the value “1”


that is the info that i am refering to. what i am looking to do is to have some other info displayed there such as machine name and maybe a short info from a txt file.

any help or thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

thanks and have a good one.


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Posted 12 January 2005 - 10:06 AM

sure...
and it's freeware to:
http://www.sysintern...re/bginfo.shtml

#3 User is offline   dawvi 

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 11:31 AM

thank you very much. this is exactly what i was looking for.

i appreciate it.

thanks again.

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 11:33 AM

any time :)

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 08:19 PM

hmm any more detailed ones out there, that have real time monitoring, like ram usage, cpu usage etc could be handy for use on my server desktops.

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 09:40 PM

Sarge, on Jan 12 2005, 07:19 PM, said:

hmm any more detailed ones out there, that have real time monitoring, like ram usage, cpu usage etc could be handy for use on my server desktops.

CoolMon has always been my favorite for text information

Homepage: http://www.coolmon.org/
Screenshots: http://www.coolmon.o...screenshots.php

#7 User is offline   Sarge 

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 10:27 PM

yeh thats pretty decent, thanks mate :thumbup

might have some fun, adding in some of them winamp or weather stuff later aswell :)

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